06/17/26 A New Poem for a New Day

(The person who this poem is dedicated to will know who they are when they see it.)

I hope you can
Give yourself the hugs
That I could never seem to give you

I hope you can
Stabilize the life
I kept moving beneath you.

I hope you can build
A place for yourself
I could never create with you.

I hope you can give
Yourself enough space to be
In a world trying to snuff you out.

I hope you can get
The anger to keep going
Even if it’s directed at me.

I hope you can continue
To fail with a courage
I will never be able to muster.

I hope you can laugh
In the way that
I never seemed to understand.

I hope you can have
The adventures
I never had time for.

I hope you can grieve
For what could have been
So that you never accept anything less

I hope you can see
Beyond the storm
At the life you’d love to live.

I hope when you remember our time together
You remember it just fondly enough to keep going
But with just enough anger at me
To try to prove me wrong.

Blast from the past:

You
Me
You and me
You and me falter
You and me falter every day