R.I.P
Goobye… 
 Goodbye I won’t see you again. 
 I stepped into another month and you’re now gone my friend. 
Step by step we went through it together.
 The cussing and fighting was unexpected – we were meant for each other. 
When your name was first mentioned, I got dragonflies.
 In all your glory, you stared in my eyes, it gave you butterflies. 
I had plans to give it to you with all my might, 
 but you were taken away from me in full flight. 
Rest in peace – even though I’m living in pieces. 
 I called you mine.
 I claimed you.
 In my mind it was just the two of us,
In my mind it was just the two of us, 
 I didn’t know time was waiting to make you the opposite of plus. 
Now you can only be mentioned, 
 like a child that’s rude you’re on ‘forever-detention’. 
It was too soon to let you go, 
 but time told me to work with the flow. 
The visions I had for us got incarcerated,
 I didn’t have enough money in my pocket – I felt devastated. 
My nails were chopped because of endless anxiety,
 counted each year, my contribution to this society. 
But I can be hopeful once again, because I now have 2016. 
 RIP and a kiss goodbye to 2015.
-Daron Chosen Smith

