Letters To Richard

17 years
It’s been so long
Where did you go?
Are you doing okay
Wherever you are?
I wish you’d come back.
Why did you have to go
And leave all of your
Friends, family, lovers
Behind, in the dark?
I think about you all the time
I wonder why you left.
Was it for the best?
I’m uncertain, but all I know
Is that I still love you,
17 years
Since you’ve been gone.