I swear the sun rose for you today.

Blooming lilacs. Evergreen fields. Lily Pads beaming in dew coated hues feels like mourning. And it’s so much more than the spaces between words that mean everything.

Calm the waters because you carried me for so long- watched me glisten in the shoreline as everything finally settled. I settled. You’re settled in the best way possible: Run freely because clouds will always be bright and the lilacs will never die. And the evergreen fields are now yours forever. And the lily pads will carry you where you please. Like you never really left.

Because every clumsy fall that made me crawl that made me swear it wasn’t okay that made me fall apart led me to some sort of peace with you. Understanding laced with you. With us. With morning air that hit my lungs differently. And even though it might not taste as sweet anymore-

I swear the sun rose for you today. -AMT