Unsent Letters

Carlos, Hanna, my dear friends, you met such early ends, and I'm empty inside. I ushered at your wedding. Warm love you'd soon be spreading - the happy groom and bride. I'll love you both forever - forget your friendship - never. Carlos and his spouse. You treated me as your kin - meals, holidays, way back when, inside your cozy house. Marriage, family and friends - you never said, "it depends". You always honored them. Your lives served as a guide. To me you did provide life's lesson - such a gem. Carlos, all those years of pain, despite cancer, you'd maintain goodness through and through. Hanna, what a shock to hear you too were taken that year. The world has lost you two. So, this letter is to say, 'twas too soon to go away, if I could let you know. Just sixty and sixty-three, you meant so much to me, and I miss you so.