The Petals would fall

We would pick flowers those sunny days,
And just lie in the grass.

I remember your eyes.

I would close my eyes and wonder,
If that warm breeze was your breath upon me
Or just that of the wind.

I never wanted to open my eyes
In case I broke the spell.

Love wove around us on those days
We grew closer with every heartbeat.

I remember thinking it was all so cliché.
I couldn’t help but delight in the beauty of it all.

I’d write you poems
And you would write me songs.

Together we could make any problem leave.

Your smell would mingle, with summer around us.
But the shade of the tree would always keep us cool.

Sometimes now,
I think I can smell you,
Even when you aren’t around.

I knew that I would never forget you.

The petals of the flowers fell,
With ‘I love you’,
‘I love you not’.

When it ended with ‘I love you,’
It had never seemed more wondrous and true.

The ‘I love you not’s never mattered.

I could never quite hold on to the feel of elation I felt with you,
You were the only place,
I felt I belonged.

And our love grew stronger.

Tears would form in my eyes,
At the thought of losing you
But the birds flying above,
The leaves slowing falling,
Kept the worries at bay.

Your kiss always cured any fears.

The butterflies went by,
Free, wrapped in summer.
They always reminded me of us.

Encased in our love,
Nothing else mattered.
It was just you and me,
We had the whole world to conquer
We would laugh at the thought of failure.

Because nothing could beat us then.

I wanted nothing more to slip into a crevice of time
To stay surrounded by your love forever.
And without explanation
I knew that’s what you wanted too.

Wrapped in the secrets of our love,
We were blind.
Our hearts were melded into one.

That day yours stopped beating,
So did mine.

And you were gone.

Taken by that which haunts us all.
We laughed away the worries
Because we were invincible.

But then you were gone.

All that was left was the residue of your love
And the medication piled on the shelves.

The medication that was going to help
The Chemotherapy
That stripped you of life.

But we kept living.

And each day with you was a miracle.
I can never forget.

I’ll sit under that tree now,
Surrounded not by only your love,
But the memories.

And its as if I can still smell you,
Still feel you heart beating.

Its as if I can still look into your eyes.
And see the world we were going to conquer.

But I will never forget.

The love
The life

I will never forget you.



And one day,
I’ll be with you again.