Rikki: Loss

Loss

In September you lost someone so close and dear

I couldn’t understand why you didn’t cry

I knew what it was like to grow up without a father

but to have yours taken from you—I couldn’t understand that pain

I wanted to find a miracle solution to make things better

I wanted to be by your side, but I held on to you too tightly

too young to experience a loss, and too scared to ask how it feels

it took two months for you to finally break down

for tears to stream down from your troubled eyes

and in those eyes I saw beauty,

and I saw all the pain that you kept inside

and I finally felt what you felt

for your troubles are my troubles
and your losses are my losses