I Knew You

I knew you. I knew the moles on your face, the blue green of your eyes, the way you always said “bye byes” before you hung up the phone. I knew you. I knew every laugh line playing at the corners of your eyes, the lighter scar on your wrist, how you loved fatty hamburgers and Bali Village takeout. I knew you. I knew how you hated my cold feet in bed. I knew that you would only wear red tag Levi’s and that you never learned how to tie a tie. I knew how you lost every kite you flew with our daughter and how you lost flippers boogie boarding through hurricane swells with our son. I knew you only drank Dunkin Donuts coffee and the only sport you liked to watch on tv was NASCAR. I knew you loved the woods, the mountains and the sea and how much cities made you uncomfortable. I knew you. I knew how the wonders of the night sky fascinated you and how you would wake up the kids in the middle of the night to show them a meteor shower or an eclipse. I knew how you liked me to stroke your arms with my fingertips until you got goosebumps, how you cried when our children were born and how well you took care of me when I was sick. I knew you. I knew that you loved rain storms and called lightning,“lightlin”. I knew that you liked to go to bed early, told our daughter you were a frog and fed wild deer with horse feed until they were tame. I knew you liked blowing anything up with firecrackers, could watch endless tractor pulls at the fair and would always kiss me three times-not two, not four, but three. I knew you. I knew how you liked heavy metal and hard rock and how you joked that Van Halen would sing “Right Now” at our daughter’s wedding. I knew that you introduced our son to AC/DC and took him to his first concert when he was way too young to go. I knew you.
Before you were taken away from me I had spent half my life knowing you. Half my life inhaling the scent of your skin, memorizing every detail of your body, knowing the depths of your soul. Half my life creating our family, living, laughing and existing with you by my side. Before you were taken from me, I knew you...

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[Ksummera]

I really enjoyed your piece. It cause me to feel the emotions and make me go through the story as if I was you. It was raw, it was real.