How...

How do I do this thing called life…

Now that I cannot reach for your hand

How do I reconcile these feelings…

The loss, the gratitude, the anguish...

The relief that your struggle is over

While mine has… changed

How do I wake in the morning...

Knowing that I can no longer reach out to you before my eyes even open

How do I laugh...

When your laughter no longer rings with my own

How do I not feel selfish in my sorrow...

While truly grateful you have peace

How do I … live… now…

When you are such a part of my definition of life

How do I adjust to this strangeness...

Of having you with me in such a different way

How do I move through this changed world...

Knowing that you have moved to the next

Time… I’m told… will soften the edge

We’ll see… we’ll see…