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To You

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countless rays on countless days
tickle me from sleep;
i never wake up wondering
how many mornings are
mine
to keep.

treading patterned outskirts of
my daily life and thought,
will you leave as you came?
to-the-point, but mild-mannered
despite your circumstances;
you're like a secret
a lovely one, but
sad, so sad.
the sort of silent matter
coined instead by masterpiece musicians
or preserved in wordless scenery
that takes one's breath
beyond the other-worlds.

so, i hesitate to write of you.
i can't.
this is to you, instead:

you could never be a past-tense
despite your fond farewells.
i've learned too much
thought too dearly
from you, of you,
to be a good sport in this.
i've never heard you speak,
nor seen your especially "wide"
smile [but i pray you smile as much,
oh, as widely as you can until you can't].
still,
your words i took to heart;
they dropped there like
heavy, hot stones
weighing on my mind and
keeping my heart warm.
they needn't have been big or small;
those words were yours
they are precious and rare.

and perhaps,
perhaps we weren't "really good
friends" [we didn't know each other
for that long a time], but
You are someone I will think of,
and smile.
strong because you had to be,
fragile in the human-est of ways,
you give, and give to others
anyway
just by talking,
just by being here, like you have been.
like you will be
always.

Hey,
i hope you read this,
and love yourself to the amount that you are loved
by so many, so many, so many
of us.
yeah
you deserve it.
For you, because I'll miss you terribly and because you are wonderful. Really, Toby, you are.
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