Some nights, your absence rises from the bed and wakes me up. I'm dead tired but there are vacuities and sadness right now that won't allow me to have my rest.
I don't blame you for going but I regret the fact that I can never follow you. This is death. Irreconcilable and excruciatingly painful. I doubt if anyone can ever genuinely move on after each incident.
It's Christmas again. A bland, empty celebration that I have to endure without you in it. Then comes new year. Then, twenty five days after that will mark the day I lost you for breast cancer.
Perhaps I will sleep through it all, like I always do. The carols, the lights, the fireworks, the feast. They have all ceased making meanings. Despite my writing skills I can't even compose and give you a proper eulogy and I am so sorry for that.
Thing is, I don't want to talk about you because it makes everything final. I don't want anyone recounting your memories either because they do it in past tense.
Almost thirteen years. It's still painful. And I am still counting.
Happy holidays, wherever you are. I love you in the most human and profound way that I can mean.
