Thanks for letting me love you half a decade
Thanks for showing me the brighter things
And bringing pigment to my grass blades
I thank and pray in every language
To every god or being or divine entity
That led us to where our paths did meet
Along highways and roadways unpaved
Rocky, twisting, turning, topsy-turvy
Early mornings and endless nights of thoughts unnerving
Fearing I would never find you
You breathed new life into lungs collapsing
By fate or chance or happenstance
Your fingers fell into my hand out grasping
And I hope you never let go.
Whether six feet under or side by side in urns as ashes
I’ll forever be grateful that I had the privilege, however short or long it turns out to be,
To have shared this time in infinite space with you