premature.

it wasn’t your time.

the world robbed us of someone wonderful.

you lit up the room.

you made us all smile.

you were good.

i, like others, have some regret.

you always made me laugh.

you always had something funny to share.

after the flames took you, after we came back, i realized what i had lost.

you see, i didn’t know you for long, but you impacted my life.

you were my friend, whether you knew it or not.

i wish i would’ve told you.

you were young.

god, you had a life ahead of you.

we had only begun the school year.

your death rocked everyone’s world.

suddenly school felt empty.

the empty seats next to me were such a foreign experience.

it was like coming back to an entirely different place.

all of a sudden there was no one making me laugh.

there was no one randomly showing me things in the middle of class.

it was an end of an era.

i wish you could’ve stayed.

we miss you.

-m.s.