I Wish You All The Best*

I hope you're happy.

I hope that you're always fighting to be happy.

I hope that every time you fall,

you recover, and you quickly discover that it's

never over.

I hope you smile then you frown.

that when you're climbing, you forget not to look down

I hope you have plenty of food to eat

And people to greet.

but I hope it cuts you deep,

when you lay down at night, alone, to sleep.

I hope to know one day,

that you walk through rooms of people

and you don't know what to say.

I hope that I am the wrinkles in the bedsheets and

the gentle morning rain.

I hope you remember their pain.

for we will not be forgotten with a shrug,

even when you say it's not but dust,

swept under the rug.

I hope you lead a busy life.

one of hope and constant strife.

I don't want you to bleed,

I just want you to know need.

I hope you work hard to gather what you've got

but that what you're searching for stays

forever in your blind spot.

I want to know that you have wept.

that for weeks you haven't slept.

I want you to see other people full of glee

yet you can't understand why they don't lend a hand.

I know you love, and that you lie.

but I hope that you learn what it is to see a loved one die.

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