I’ve heard so many things about you,
And I might even love you even though we’ve never met.
It’s only because I feel like I know you so well,
even though there hasn’t been a spoken word between you and me.
But I know if we ever spoke I’d watch the way your lips move and I’d hang on every word.
And even though you’re not here you’re still everywhere:
As if your presence is floating in the air.

I can understand someone who was once with you now missing you.
From what I’ve heard it seems like a fall from grace;
To go from:
having you near,
seeing your face,
or hearing your voice every day,
                                                            to nothing.
Maybe it’s better to never have to endure that pain.
                                                           ­ But I don’t think so.
(As they say) 'Tis better to love and lost than never have loved
                                                           ­ at all.
With you it’s truly better to have had the chance.

I used to think the 60's was a bad decade
for humanity.
Then I learned about the 70's.
The 80's, I'm not sure bc I was five
when it started.
In the 90's I was mostly optimistic and young.
The start of the 00's started off rough, got better and we'll see what happens next.

There is good and and bad in everything.
But in my older years it's more difficult to see the best in all this incongruency.
I can only hope it all evens out on the end.
If bad beats good all these good deeds will be for nothing.
I'll never know the finality.

You have to be an alpha male sometimes.
I get it.
But you don't need to be it all the time.
Is it a guise for something deep inside? Something from childhood you can't
name or hide?
Put up your walls that have no foundation rooted in the way we interact;
Something extra you put up to protect you from something non-imminent.
I see through you and I'm not impressed by your alpha maleness.

The world without you is a lonely place,
An empty land with too much spare time and space.
I will always remember you,
You can never be replaced.
Goodbye