Hello

Hello. You said that word as you approached me. I smiled as I reached to touch your papery hand, so fragile in mine. It had been a very long time, each of us claiming not to remember the last time we had seen each other.

But that was a lie. I remember every minute I spent with you. I would live the rest of my life in any of those moments. That's what love is, a promise for the future.

I lifted your fingers and kissed them, hoping you would keep the promise you never knew you made to me.