Inevitable

If you died,

I would fall into the sky,

Into the lights

That have been long dead

By the time they reach me.

I wouldn't cry,

Because you always say

That you won't be old,

And I would never want for you

Anything that you wouldn't.

At night, 

I watch stars flicker out,

And I wonder to myself

When I will be watching your eyes

Do the same.

At your funeral,

No one would say

"He was too young,"

"It wasn't fair,"

Because the truth is

You will always be too young,

With your soul of fire

And your laugh of sun.

It will never be fair

To lose your soul

To whatever afterlife it chooses,

And no one at your funeral

Would be surprised

When they saw me staring,

An empty shell

Of the girl who loved you,

Empty of soul,

Because if you died,

I would fall into the sky,

Into the lights

That have been long dead

By the time they reach me.