1 I asked you to come back. You said you would.
I begged you not to go, but you pried myself away.
Leaving, for the one thing I never hoped you had to,
War.
The others drifted away
Until finally, you were the only thing that kept me going.
The letters that came back
Describing the horrors you saw
Made tears flow from my eyes,
Blurring the words you had so carefully made.
And then I got another letter
In an official envelope, tied with ribbon
Making my heart plummet.
I forced myself to read every sentence
That said the same thing, over and over,
Telling me you wouldn't make it home for your 15th birthday,
That you never would.
I think that is when I finally lost it.
Sometimes, I felt like taking the gun I had
And joining you in the world over the stars
It seemed nothing kept me here
But the earth under my feet and the birds in the sky.
After six years,
I stopped expecting you to come back
Until, that fateful day,
When I saw you walking toward me
With Kirby by your side
And I reached out to see that you were real,
So I did what I had wanted to for the last six years,
And finally...
Cried.