Hey Man,<\/p>\n
I didn\u2019t want to contact you like this.
\nLetters to the dead are really just letters
\nto the living from the living,
\ntrying to reconcile with what we regret.
\nIf what I want to say is so important, why did I wait until now?
\nWhy had I lost all contact with you for the past decade?
\nYou see? I told you. Regrets.<\/p>\n
I guess I wrote you off sometime in my past,
\ndrew a line and placed you on the other side;
\ntime just continued to pass. Sentiments would arise,
\nbut I never took action to reconnect,
\njust buried you prematurely
\nand tried not to think about it too much.<\/p>\n
I heard you stopped by my parent\u2019s house a couple of times
\nwhile you were visiting the old neighborhood.
\nI wish I could have been there, or got a chance to hear your voice once more.
\nI guess we never know when we are experiencing the last of something, or someone.
\nWe just assume we have a choice in how our lives proceed.
\nIt\u2019s easier to believe that we have some form of control over what happens to us,
\nso we put the important things we aren\u2019t ready to face off to the side,
\nto be attended to later… on someday…later.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve thought about our friendship so much since I got the news of your passing.
\nWe had many good times. I was happy and I believe you were happy too.
\nThere were some hard times as well, real times,
\nblows to the heart, loss of breath times, bleeding times.<\/p>\n
I heard about how it happened.
\nYou were just doing the same shit we always did,
\nbut the body can\u2019t take living like that forever.
\nI think it was an accident.
\nI don\u2019t believe you meant to do it. I feel bad.
\nIt haunts me how you can consciously make decisions
\nthat invite your own death without realizing that you\u2019re doing it.<\/p>\n
There is so much more I want to say to you.
\nThere is so much more I want to say to you that won\u2019t fit into words,
\nthat I can\u2019t constrain into speech or confine to a single letter.
\nSo I\u2019ll just keep talking to you from time to time,
\nwherever I\u2019m at, whatever I\u2019m doing, however I may be remembering you.<\/p>\n
I hope the afterlife isn\u2019t cold. I don\u2019t like to think of you cold.
\nWherever you are, I hope you can still be warmed by love.<\/p>\n
Your Friend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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