To my friend, Magnolia:

Losing someone you love never gets easier with time.

If you lose them young, all those unanswered questions will **** you.
if you lose them later, everything you know about them will.

To say grief fades with time
is to suggest love was never real.
Because how can someone
no longer here
still be part of the story?

How can they be the exposition, the rising action, the ******, the falling action, and the resolution all at once?

How can they keep haunting the narrative?

Time makes no promises.
Not happiness,
not closure,
not even peace.

But love does.

There will always be enough love
to make this pain bearable.

The sum of what you have lost
and what you have yet to find
will be your only salvation.

And you will be loved, Magnolia.

because even now,
you are capable of loving
someone that has been and ever was.