I promise

Dedicated to my younger brother, the only person who truly understood me and my sense of humor, I love you and miss you every day.

I promise that I will think of you

each and every day,

but I will let you move forward in your journey

in a very peaceful way.

You will stay deep within my heart

as you were my other half.

You will be with me through every smile,

and you will live on within my laugh.

You were the most talented of them all.

You always stood out in a crowd.

I will celebrate each passing day

and I promise to make you proud.

It would be selfish of me to focus on the pain

that I am feeling within myself.

But God has his own selfish reasons

to first, pick the best ones off the shelf.

We are all stuck here in this world

still trying to figure out life.

You already figured out the key to the puzzle.

You always were so wise.

I promise you I won't be afraid

of getting older and leaving my youth.

Each day I age, I now understand

that I am one day closer to you.

I promise that I will think of you

each and every day,

but I will let you move forward in your journey,

in a very peaceful way.

Kamal Trivedi