Oh ♥ Robert
Why is it, you only enter my brainwaves on Memorial Day ?
and there you hunker, for a solid 24, with my annual ! I promise ! promise to do better,
try better,
BE BETTER.
Until tomorrow arrives, where your memory will quietly fade away
and ! poof ! off to I’ll see next year, you’ll go.
Oh,
when you’re here, you remind of how things should be,
how your existence was taken, your life sacrificed, to better mine.
And how I should be thanking you and so many others every, single day of every, single year,
honoring and cherishing and REALIZING what you gave up for this land I call home, this treasure called, America.
Oh, Robert.
On the days negativity surrounds and the noise machine is in full blown ugly,
please, please come back with a nudge to be kind
and gracious
and appreciative
and helpful
and open to all,
but mostly, remind me to respect the fragility of this precious gift, as you so bravely did,
Oh, Robert.
♥