There have been so many moments this year when I looked up at the stars and whispered, “I know that was you.” In death, we can touch our loved ones, but they can still touch us. Learning to live without you this year has been even harder. Your memory is the nightlight that I need to sleep. It’s as if all the light went out of the world one year ago. It’s been a year since I’ve held your hand in mine, but your heart lives within my body every day. Your memory has walked beside me for a year, and I’m so grateful for the company. I remembered you in children’s summer laughter. I remembered you in the song of spring birds. I remembered you in the whisper of falling snow. I remembered you in the rustling of leaves beneath my feet. Those moments are testament to your loss, but they also show the depth of your love. Even years later, I can feel your fingerprints on my heart.Ī year’s worth of little moment and reminders has passed. It is the strength of someone who must love across the divide. I’m thinking of you during this year that has been filled with love. Grief is all the love you want to share with someone who is gone. Yet in my memory, I spoke to you only yesterday. The first day without you felt like a year, and this year feels like a century. This year has not separated my heart from yours. Time loses meaning, but our memories never can.Īlthough life doesn’t last forever, love is eternal. In grief, one year can seem like a few days. It brings me comfort, knowing you are not alone. When you left, you took a part of my heart with you. But you surprise yourself too in your ability to withstand it.Īnyone who says that time heals all wounds hasn’t truly grieved. Once you think you’ve accommodated the grief, it surprises you in new ways. There is no getting used to losing someone you love. Some years are just unbearably hard, and yet we bear them. That’s a powerful thing, and it makes your connection stronger. Keeping that memory alive can bring you comfort.Įach day, for 365 days, you have marked your loss with memory. There’s nothing quite as sad as the moment when the person with whom you experienced your best memories becomes a memory too. I hold your memory as a glimmer in my heart. It’s been one trip around the sun without the light of your love. This day is important, and how you feel on it is important too. How you loved someone is reflected in how you grieve. The scenery changes, and the terrain becomes easier, but there is no point of arrival. Grief is a journey that never completely ends. It has been a year, but there is no way to set a milestone or a limit on the grief. We can measure time, but we cannot measure loss. May you rest peacefully in heaven.Įven though you are no longer here, you often cross my mind. You had left this world for long years ago, but your memories are still fresh in our minds. You are alive through my prayers and wishes, so rest peacefully.
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You had touched countless lives in your lifetime, and even after your death, you live through your good deeds. Losing you is my biggest regret and I miss you every day. To think that it was yesterday that we first met. But there is comfort in the fact that someday we shall meet again. Having to part ways with you was heartbreaking. There is not a day when I do not think of you and the love you had shown towards me. Death Anniversary Messages for a Friend.