Calico Frost

Each step is one towards the future

each action leads to the next

after the left foot comes the right foot

after winter is spring

after the war is the rejuvenation

after the bad is the good

I'm

so very

proud of you;

you've gotten so far

and achieved so many things

and are still achieving incredible things

and you will forever be, knowing you.

You

may think

She is lost

she has been obscured from view

when she speaks, no one hears

when she tries, no one sees

she has been hidden from sight

she has lost what she loves most

and now

she is

empty

When we ask questions

we get answers

but they don't answer our questions

they leave us hanging

and they are the answers to a different question.

If I try to clarify

it gets worse

Their names were mine

I took care of them

they are my closest confidants

and forever will be

Fuzzy Bunny

one of the oldest of them all

worn and not very fuzzy anymore

I'm sick

nothing to do about it

let me go home

it can't be the end of the world if I'm not there for an afternoon, can it?

I'm contagious

everyone else would get whatever the heck I have

you don't want this