"For Miranda"

I hurt more in passing days
As your vision stays
A vision of love lost
Happiness has its cost!
But as the night seeks dawn
So I look for you on and on
I cry, I love, I live
in the sorrow, please forgive!
Forgive me for living
I cry for all you've given!
I miss you so much
And the warmth of your touch
I almost feel
What I thought was real
But come to find
It was all in my mind
I sleep just to see you
And wake to review
The dream that you came back

To fill a life that I lack!

Author's Note

My first commissioned poem, my friend Miranda had lost several people very close to her in a short span, less than one school year. She asked if I could try to make sense of it with words so she could "tell" them how she felt about it. I did what I could for her.