A year ago today

I was a child

Fireworks

Shell shock

BooM

Not war

But war inside

Right outside

The window

BOOM

The floor

sHoOk

Windows RAttLEd

It was pretty

jarRIng

Too much

Too little

To fill

The gaping

Hole

In my

Heart

A strange place

Strange feelings

Strange times

I never meant

To leave you

In the past

The year was gone

And so were you

Two

Thirty

One

Will forever

Be engraved

Imprinted

In my mind

Soul to ocean

Body to dust

Dust to air

Sparkling

Shining

Brightly

In the night sky

With children below

Laughing and playing

With firecrackers

B O O M

Another sleepless night

I love you too much

To think of goodbyes

I can’t think of fireworks

Without your light