I found your picture today

I was putting away

The final boxes

Finally settling

In my new home

And there it was

The yearbook

I knew if I opened it

I would see your face

Feel the pain

The loss

But I had forgotten

For your graduation

I had written your description

Described you as

Compassionate

Intelligent

Enigmatic

Dedicated

Abilities

That surpass your age

But your age

Stopped

Never caught up

Instead

You walked onto a highway

Felt you had nothing left

No one there

And I grieve for you

How alone

How hopeless

You must have felt

And I grieve for the world

Without your laugh

Your wit

Your life

It has been 3 years

Since you left

And I think of you often

And work

And fight

To make sure no one

In my life

Feels alone

In memory

Of you

To honor

The truth

In the yearbook

 

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