Love is the lie that keeps us alive…

My dreams fell short in the dark

Sinkable, broken, lost

I reach for you every day but I catch air

I would catch you and we would be together

And I would be with you.

I imagine me and and you making

Surgar cookies together and watching

Migrating birds fly over the land

Their shadows would reign on us

I would be with you

In a thunderstorm, you would hold on

To me and never let go ‘till I wasn’t scared

You would watch me take my first steps

In life and pick me up if I fell down

And I would be with you

You would cry as I headed off to first grade

You would laugh when I jumped into your arms

You would tell me fairy tales stories and

You would laugh when I changed all the names

I would be with you

I might have had a younger sister or brother

And Abbey would be happy

Maybe me and her would beg for a puppy

A puppy Abbey would call Carolina

And we would be with you

I would see the world as a fairy tale.

Just me, you, Abbey, and “Daddy.”

But sadly, I was quick to discover

The world was not at all fairy tale

We can’t be with you.

The fairy tale we should have had was ruined

No more changing the names of the people we love

But I remember. Without your life being lost

Millie and Corbin would never be born and Andi wouldn’t know Abbey

But now I can be with them

So thank you. Thank you Sheri

Thank you for giving me a purpose

I now have a fairy tale of my own

Maybe not the one I wanted

But I will be with you

Forever