I hardly knew you
And yet sometimes the wind
Decides to hit me in some way
And I remember that you're gone.
Sometimes someone mentions your name
Or I see a flower
For you were like a blossom
And I feel like someone has placed me in a dream
It's easier to forget that you existed
It's easier. If you were alive but just not around
I would hardly bat an eyelid.
It's just that every time I go back to the last place I saw you
I remember that I held your hand.
Could I have done something?
Could I have eased your pain?
I would do anything.
Standing on the beach where you died,
I wondered where it was that you took your final breath
And if it was your own decision.
You are among the faeries now, in the hawthorn,
The primrose blooms brighter now that you are in her earth
The birds sing with you
And sometimes I can almost see you among the trees,
Laughing as the wren dances.
I don't know where people go when they die
But I hope you're somewhere in the forest.
I can't stop wondering.
Who found you lying there?
When did your children hear?
I cannot begin to think,
For if you were my mother I would have loved you
Loved you to the deepest part of my heart
I will never know, because I am
And always will be,
Just some girl you saw once in a while
Shared a song and a kind word with
Shared some of your beauty with
And who wishes she had never met you
Because she can't handle the pain of losing someone that she would have loved if she had known she would die.