IN MEMORY

We remember you
not as you left,
but as you lived.
In small moments,
in familiar laughter,
in the way your name
still feels warm in our mouths.
You are no longer where we can reach you,
but you are everywhere we go.
Not gone.
Just changed.
From touch to memory,
from voice to echo,
from here to always.
Time did not take you from us.
It only taught us
how to carry you differently.