Letters on Headstones

Everyone has a point

One can only be pushed so far

Every time I think I’ve reached mine

I prove myself wrong

So please tell me

Did you reach yours

Or did you only think you had?

Either way what’s done is done

I will never understand

Why you left the way you did

But if nothing else

I am glad that I learned

What it meant to be hurt like this

So I know not to do it to anyone else

But perhaps it was your time

And that I understand

However

I miss you

I wish you were still here

And in some sad way

I’m glad you aren’t

So you can’t see what I’ve become

But I’ve become

I’m still here

I’ve stuck around long enough to grow

Despite everything

I made it this far

And I wish 

If nothing else

You could see my tenacity

And know 

That was the greatest gift you left me

-j.p