Poem Submission - Evelina Bryja

Gone.

I wish I could sit on the front steps with you.

Watch the sun pass by as the summer breeze brushed our skin. 

I wish I could have these happy times with you. 

Something I would be able to look back upon and smile about. 

I wish you were still here so we could bond together. 

Toss a ball or crack random jokes until tears poured out of my eyes like waterfalls, 

Laughing so hard that after a while, no noise came out. 

It's times like these that I wish I could be able to cherish with you.

 I sit in my room every night and wonder what it would be like to have you here. 

How different my life would be if you didn't leave. 

I feel as if you would bring back the happiness in everyone, 

Have smiles shining bright from every direction and laughter ring out like melodies.

But all there is, is silence 

And the silence lasted. 

I had this hope that maybe it was all a dream. 

But a minute passed, and another minute, and soon I realized the reality of it all. 

You were gone. 

It was out of my control, out of everyone's control. 

There was nothing we could do anymore to bring you back. 

I couldn't help you, mom couldn't help you, or the doctor's couldn't help you. 

And from that moment on, you flew. 

That doesn't stop me from wondering how you would affect my life. 

How much joy or happiness you would bring me. 

I wonder if you think about me from Heaven, because I promise you, there is not one day I don't go without thinking about you. 

And that's because you shaped the way I am today

 Even though you weren't here to see me grow up or teach me right from wrong, 

I will always love you no matter what because death cannot be taken for granted.