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i never knew your favorite song
or your favorite color
you weren't one to talk much
never about yourself
now it's too late to ask those things
but i feel i know the essential
like how strong you were
to carry such beauty
to endure so many cold winters
away from the caribbean warmth
i know how you were patience personified
how you had to be
thanks to you i learned
how to cook for myself
you guided me over the phone
step by step, more than once
and now i know how to make the best damn stewed beans
you always found a way to shorten the distance
no matter how much i tried
to prove myself i was fine on my own
but now that i know you’re physically gone
i feel physically ill
my chest feels heavy
my eyes have been begging me for sleep
for a whole week now
my head takes turns to ache one side at a time
and i miss you more than i ever imagined
i think of you the same way clouds suddenly fill the sky
and i am rain
i think of the last time i saw you before today
how you were speechless
so i became song
how you held my hand tightly
while i displayed my heart open to you
for the first time in so long
how your smile was weak but present
i’m grateful we lived that moment
the time to say goodbye is now
but you don’t feel like you
you don’t look like you
so it’s like, you’re just away
elsewhere
and we say goodbye to the body that carried you for 86 years
because that’s nature, i try to remind my heart
you transitioned to your next life
wherever you were needed
you now rest from this one
a well deserved rest
you gave us your everything
you lived
and now, you rest
“unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality”
— emily dickinson
About the Creator
MELO
i'm a human with a masters in creative writing, most fluent in poetry :)
born in 1993 at the caribbean, really a citizen of the world
listen to my band's music: NÖMADÄS in all streaming platforms <3
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