In loving memory

This is late. I'm sorry. I needed time to think.

I don't know what I'm supposed to say or how I'm supposed to say it. All I know is that I will miss you dearly and regret every day I let pass without speaking at least a sentence to you. You have taught me and thousands of others to seize the day and be part of a community, and for that I am forever grateful.

I wish there was something I could say to your closest friends or family to help ease their pain, but everyone will take their own time to recover, and I hope to help in any way possible. In all honesty, it still hasn't sunk in for me. I will have to borrow words to express how I feel:

"It came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time.....And I rationed my breaths as I said to myself that I'd already taken too much today........It stung like a violent wind that our memories depend on a faulty camera in our minds.........Love is watching someone die"

Happy Birthday. I miss you. Thank you.