9 years... And we live

So it has been 9 years...9 years without you...

9 years of searching for your face in lonely crowds... 

9 years of school visits and long drives without you...

9 years of grocery trips and life changing journeys without you...

9 years of new faces unknown to you... 

9 years of new stories you have not lived... 

9 years...of relentless, unmerciful, unempathetic time.. 

9 years...of lost love resurfaced in the eyes of memory and nowhere else... 

9 long... long... years 

But know this My Heart... 

We have been strong in our love for you, ours and ourselves. 

We are still standing in pride and loss. 

We have allowed happiness to seep in a little at a time as you would have wanted. 

We are still alive in hope. 

Hope...That we will catch your smile with ours in time, 

Not only with tears and yearning... 

Hope...That one day we will regale you with our stories.. 

Lived for both you and ourselves... 

Hope... That we will get to reveal to you familiar and unfamiliar faces 

Of the angels that have held us through strife and life... 

Hope... that you are awakened by the love we give so freely

Stemming from the love you have given us... 

We hope My Heart... 

We hope... 

And we love... 

And we live...