Blogging 101 – Day 12

The Promise

Three weeks before your 19th birthday

You were excited

So was I

I promised you I would be home to celebrate.

 

I was to leave

My car pack and ready to go

Back to my dorm

You were leaving to go home

I knew that I would miss your goodbye.

 

The conversation started like any other

We both said goodbye

Knowing my departure time

I told you I would see you in three weeks

That’s when you froze.

 

I explained my schedule

My long disappearance

Where I was going

How long the time would be

Why it was three weeks.

 

How was I to know

What our last conversation would be

Of my promise to see you in three week

My promise to celebrate your birthday

Your last words being “You better”

Mine was “I promise”

How was I to know

That it would be the last time we smiled and wave

 

The conversation is stuck

In my head

My heart

In my life

 

It hurts

The memory replaying,

Reliving,

Of now knowing.

But I am still stuck

 

See I kept my promise

But you never did

So here is my last conversation

To help me say

Goodbye