One Year

A year has gone by
and not a day I haven’t thought of you
Sometimes I feel like my heart was buried with you
not my physical heart, of course
but the one that still hurts.

I loved you at a time when i needed to be seen
and somehow you saw me
You taught me a new way to be strong
when everyone else thinks your dreams are ridiculous

I’ll never know another soul like yours
for it was truly one of a kind
not in a corny hallmark way
more like the protagonist of an epic poem
dark, moody, determined, and underneath it all, a heart of gold.

I see you in everything
from the howls I hear at night
to the chills that run up my spine
I carry you with me always

The days pass and soon too will the years
I know how time progresses, the endless march
and yet there you are, in my mind as ever before
unchanging for eternity
an angel as ever you are.