I Fell in Love with Hope

by Lancali

“You know, Sam, loneliness has no kindness to offer, so… thank you for giving me yours.”

Death isn’t playful. Death is sudden. It has no taste for irony or reason. It is a taker, plain, direct, no tricks up its sleeve. But at least, This time, Death was kind enough to wait for goodbye.

Because you don’t lose someone once. You lose them hearing a song that reminds you of their smile. Passing an old landmark. Laughing at a joke they would’ve liked. You lose them infinitely.

will remember those I love longer than I had a chance to know them.

I realize, as my tears fall, that I always wondered if the suns in his eyes would suit the moons in mine till they shut forever and every night left to come, it rained.