Cedric,
You bright-spirited, sweet, sweet, soul. If I were to forget your face, I'd remember your smile. The curve of your lips and your crinkling nose scrunch. The following laugh I could hear from down the hall that made girls' heads turn--and to admit, my own as well.
Meeting you taught me one thing: there's always enough room in your life for new adventures. Our first adventure together showed me how defensive you are, even over your preference of warm butterbeer. Despite that, we toasted to "more adventures" but that day'll always be the day we were bound to be friends.
As blessed as I was to have you as a friend, that was exactly our burden.
It meant you weren't obliged to stay committed to my time. You weren't destined to ever see me the way you'd see that raven-haired girl and we weren't tied to be more than friends. And we for sure were not bound to fall in love.
Despite our friendship, you made many promises to me. You treated me like no one else in the world did, and if that wasn't love then I don't know what is. Love can come in different packages--it just happened to be that yours arrived too late before we could have enough time to know each other. To bond. To learn the story behind our smiles and in our hearts.
And of all our promises, you broke the most important one.
You left.
Though you could've survived a coward,
You left this world a hero,
But we could've moved on together, adventure under every stone we could have turned.
However, you are a good man and I wouldn't change a single thing about you. You also taught me all adventures come to an end. Even ours. And even though it's selfish to wish we had more time, I wish even more that I had shared my heart with you before you left.
So we could've turned those promises to vows,
Had a chance to turn the tables,
And stones.
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July 11th, 2023
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