A Time of Remembrance...

A year has passed since you parted.
It hardly seems possible.
Like a passing breeze
or the ripple of a wave before it crashes on the shore.
Here, and then gone.
Time has moved forward.
FAST forward!
In some ways I have moved forward too.
Yet in other ways, at other times - I feel stuck.
Sometimes, sadness comes and envelops me in darkness...
But, more often, it doesn't.
And that is almost harder.
In the sadness, I see you.
I remember you.
I keep your memory alive.
In moving on, I feel I may forget,
everything that you were,
all that you meant.
So, today I am taking a moment
to sit and remember.
To give myself permission
to simply be...
Happy or sad - I know that it doesn't change
anything about you.