This is a conversation with someone who isn't here anymore.

It's about grief that still speaks.

Still asks questions.

Still waits for an answer that won't come the way it used to.

Through spoken word, memory, and everything I don't know how to carry quietly, this is where I say things I wish I could say out loud.

It's about losing the person you would run to-

and learning what it means to stand when there's no one left to catch you.

And still hoping, somehow,

that love reaches farther than we understand.