We Hold You In Our Hearts
The sun is shining today,
and the sky is a beautiful
shade of blue. It makes
bearing the cold a little bit
easier, too — but it doesn’t
fill the hole that you’ve
left in all of our hearts.
It’s been four years since
you’ve been gone.
Four years since we’ve
heard your laugh or felt
your hugs or watched as
your smile reached your
eyes.
Four years without phone
calls and text messages and
long dinners and unending
conversation.
Four years without you at
our tables, and in our homes
and at our Thanksgiving
celebrations.
The sun is shining today,
and the sky is a beautiful
shade of blue.
And I can’t help but think
that the beauty that we’re
seeing today is a little bit
of you, smiling down from
heaven above.
Reminding us of the love that
we still share.
Reminding us of the love that
you left behind.
Reminding us to keep loving
one another, even when the
sun isn’t shining.
We’re on the other side of
the rawness of grief, and the
shock of sudden loss, but
we still miss you.
We look for you in the twinkle
of stars of the night sky.
We smile at the thought of
you dancing with the morning
sun.
And we hold you in our hearts
because we cannot hold you
in our arms.
