Just writing and wondering,
Rest under the read more
(CW: mention of a person's passing)
You've been gone 12 years
I think the 12th or 13th of this month would make it to the day
Whatever day it was that was a Wednesday near the beginning of February in 2012
(or is it 13 years? Or is it 11? I don't know)
Your story ended
No more to it
I wonder how often my sisters and nieces and nephews think of you, if my mom thinks about you or if your sisters do
How many people will keep your story alive?
You weren't extraordinary
Just a man who lived his life how he could
Who left his hometown in search of a better life
(and doesn't that sound familiar)
Who had love
And heartache
Who made friends and mistakes
Who got to see some amazing things
(like when you were flown out to California to sail a shrimp boat back to Georgia)
(and the time after that when your boss took you with him to South America)
I spent so much time with you
And yet there was so much I didn't know and never asked
How is a kid supposed to know what to ask to remember you by?
Mom told me about your mom and your dad
And what they meant to you
How much your mom meant to you because of how your dad was
And how he died when you were so young
But I don't know anything about what it was like to grow up in Eastman Georgia
I know that every summer was hot and dry because I spent some of those days there
And fall nights were crisp and cool and you can see the stars brighter than anything else in Hawkinsville
I wonder if you went to rivers like I do to sit
I wonder if you sat until everything went quiet around you
I wonder what it was like the day you decided to leave and look for a new life
I wonder what brought you to the coast
You liked fishing but I never asked if you liked hunting
I wonder what it was like for you to grow up with three sisters and one mom to support you all
I don't know
I lost my train of thought with this,
So much regret and things I'll never be able to ask you
Love you
And I hope if someone reads this then maybe they know something of you now
And maybe your story lives a little longer
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