A Letter to A Stranger

This isn't really a 'poem' a such but the other categories did not seem relevant. It is a letter, an obituary of sorts, with things that I wish I could tell the person in question.

You do not know me, you never did and you never will. But I watched you on the screen and I listened to you intently yet for some reason I never took the chance to get to know the person behind the music. Instead I will admit that I chose to take the negative stuff I read about you at face value and believed every opinion of you that said you were worth nothing. It is with bittersweet regret that I now know this was far from the truth. This I am sure will not matter to you at all but I want to tell you how dreadfully sorry I am for not appreciating you during your lifetime and for not having faith in you when you needed it. You suffered so much at the hands of fate and your amazing talents were constantly overshadowed by your personal demons in later years but you never deserved to be treated in that horrible way that you were by some. You were worth so much more than them, you were worth the world, but you never could believe it. You never did believe in yourself, however, everyone you knew believed in you. And although I know that just having one more ally could not have saved you I wish beyond doubt that love could bring you back from the dead. Because I know that it would. If you could only see now how much you were loved and how much you meant to so many people, maybe things would have been different. Maybe then you wouldn’t have felt so lonely and in need of constant relief from that pain you were going through. What that was I can’t even imagine. You died too young, with so much more still to give yet so much pain still in your heart in place of that happiness that you needed and deserved so much. I can only take comfort in the hope that wherever you are now you have finally found peace of mind. And I just hope you know that your legacy will live on through our memories and in our hearts for ever.

Sincerely,

A Lovely Stranger

Author's Note

Please do not review this as a standard poem.
Tell me what you think of my writing style and my grammar?