A Different New Year

A Different New Year

We started the year with you here

Now it's been months with you gone.

The days go so slow, but already a new year will begin.

I pick up the phone to call you a few times a week

I still haven't erased your number from my phone

It hurts to not get calls from you or hugs or I love yous

It hurts because you were loved

We drive past the cemetery

We stop when we can

Even though it's just a slab in the ground

It helps to be near you

To think of you

We look at pictures

Of you

With us

We smile through tears

As we remember

I've learned some things to start this New Year

Not resolutions, they don't seem to last.

Patience.

Not to take people or the time

they so willingly share for granted.

To smile more.

To hug more.

To say I love you MORE.

TODAY when possible not put off for tomorrow

because tomorrow become todays and yesterdays.

Yesterdays are what we remember

But we will continue to live in today

So we'll start our different new year

Like a new chapter in an ongoing book

Characters will come and love and leave

This is not The End...

kl 12-31-15