To a Friend

Today must have been an extraordinarily rough day for you.  Something got so hard in your life and you felt as though you couldn't take one more minute, so you left.  Gone.  Just like that.  No good-bye, no 'remember when' - just gone.  i don't understand the reasons but i do know you dealt with pain on a daily basis, and for that i am so very sorry.  i wish i could've taken the pain from you.  i wish i could've healed the part of you that cried and screamed against the injustices that have been done to you.  i wish i could've made your heart whole again, with no scars, with no painful past - just whole and well.  You have a wonderful mind.  You have a generous spirit.  You have a loving heart.  But the pain and the ghosts got too hard to bear and they weighed you down.  i hurt for you.  i grieve for you.  i cry for you.

You will be missed, my friend.  You will be missed.

Hugs you.