first time i saw you,
you were so thin.
scared,
i avoided you,
in fear of touching you,
and shattering you,
into a million pieces,
of which i could never fix.
the cancer,
i just found out that inhabited you,
was killing you,
slowly.
truthfully,
i saw you as indestructable,
to always be there,
to laugh and tell tales,
of total nonsense.
but one day,
i came back and you were gone,
i stared at your corpse,
in shock.
tears struck later,
when i realized,
you were never coming back.
i laid in your bed,
crying again,
staring,
hoping to see you.
nothing.
to this day,
i regret not hugging you,
regret not kissing you,
and telling you,
three words,
that you could have taken,
on your journey.
Author notes
my grandma died of cancer
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I'm sorry to hear about your grandmother. I'm really close to mine, I'd hate for that to happen, I'd be heart broken. Awesome write though. My favorite lines were "i avoided you,
in fear of touching you,
and shattering you,
into a million pieces,
of which i could never fix."
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