the memory of your smiling face rises in my chest as a laugh- I squeeze my eyes shut, my muscles tense with warmth
that summer, I have to think of your face in order to fall asleep. i wonder if you know how i thought about you that entire plane ride. thank you for becoming someone I don't know.
2
did you know I still show people love through touch, the way you taught me? were you ever by my side? I have been missing you, always.
i still don't know what to do without you: I feel as though I have never loved anyone since, I know it.
3
you were so sweet and pink, your hair and flushed cheeks and lips, and all the dreams I had of you tasted like cherry wine.
sometimes, as I go to bed, I shut my eyes and hope that I'll have another dream of you. it's the only way i can see you again. Do you ever think of me?