My Hope For You

I hope that you learn to seek.

To find calm.

To find peace.

To find quiet.

To find release.

I hope that you learn to love.

The Sunshine.

The rain.

Yourself.

The terrain.

I hope that you learn to live.

With the world

With the weather

With the unexplained

Without a tether.

I hope that you learn to wonder.

At the simple

At the complex

At the tone

At the context

I hope that you learn to stand

Up for others.

On solid ground.

In the storm.

With the profound.

I hope that you learn to lay.

Without fidgeting.

In a soft bed.

Down your weapons.

With someone close instead.

Down in bed.

I hope that one day,

You learn that every fight is not a war

That, not every battle is win or lose

That, not every person is an enemy.

That you're not the only one who gets to choose.

I hope for all of this,

Knowing that I will never know,

If you chose to reap,

Or you choose to sow.

I loved you truly.

I loved you deeply.

I loved you as hard,

As I'll love your memory.