Passing Feelings

Written in lieu of death

It still feels surreal

not having you to call

or run to when my tower crumbles

because I never thought

I would have to fight these

battles on my own.

Twenty one years

was all I had to spend with you

and it went by quicker than I anticipated

not like it was written on your forehead

for us to read and count down to

and for that I am grateful

because our time was not measured

by the hours or minutes or even seconds

but by moments of pure joy

left to reside in my mind.