And so now our time has ended, our season passed.

I will never know, in this life, why we dropped into each other’s world but I know that I felt you never invited me in. Standing always at the door, not uninvited but never invited in.

Yet, you gave me the greatest gift of knowing I could love again. See, I thought I never would but I was wrong.

We will never talk or touch again but I will always hear your voice and remember the sweet softness of your skin. I will hear, every so often, the sound of your laughter and the thunder of your anger and I will remain grateful you shared it with me even if it was for such a brief moment.

So thank you for saving me from going to my grave, stone cold and unyielding. Instead I am an ash, untethered and floating, settling into whatever I may fall upon and dissolve. This is freedom and you gave to me, not to be enjoyed with you, but with myself`~ thank you.