I’ve been thinking about you today
About the loss that came your way
About the strength you show
And the love that flows
Despite the pain of moving on
I realized just by chance
That you have given me a gift
A sense of how it is
To lose yet walk anew–
And that new found strength
In your stride,
That confidence in life,
Comes from things anchored
So in a faith
That truth to know we can all overcome,
Not just the grave, but the little
Pricks that life inflicts.
Today, I am happy to know you,
I am lucky to know you,
To watch you teach me
how it is to accept, to move on,
to love fiercely without fear.
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