Gone

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Gone, you're gone. 
And tomorrow (the 25th) it'll be exactly a year since the last time I talked to you.
                                                                                The seventh of March will be a year since you died.
And it's taking its toll on me. I miss you, and the nightmares are pounding inside my head.

                                                                                  The sad part is- the dreams aren't nightmares.
                                                                        Not at all. 
They are good. I see your face. I hug you. And it's like you never left.
But then I wake up, just like this morning, and I am mourning. 
                                                                                     My dog looks at me like he's terrified- 
                       Like his owner has taken a one way street to crazy ville. 
My pillow is wet, my eyes are stained, but there are no tears. 
That's because I cried so much my body can't any more. 
                                                            And there's this wrenching pain in my heart. 
And I look over, wanting to text you (at the least) and ask why, but I know I can't. 
                                                                                                       It's been a year. Why am I grieving?
You know, songs take a whole new meaning when they pertain to you.
I guess mine are "Hello" and "Like You" by Evanescence. 
                                                                                              Even if you are my brother. 
But still. I find myself associating these songs with your death.
                 And maybe I'm not grieving. 
Maybe I am accepting.
                                                                            I never talk about this part of that night
When my former sister called me and told me what happened, I remembered the night before.
I remember being on vacation for spring break with my friend, and I was asleep.
                                                                                             I dreamt that I saw you.
                                                            You were happy, and healthy
and beautiful. 
Not beautiful in a "I'm attracted to you," but the kind of beautiful that told a story of a life of pain
but then a life of recovery.
                                    You wore glasses in my dream, you had your hair cut short
                                     which normally reached to your waist.
I figured this signified change- like something changed and I would get to witness it.
I texted you that day (after I assumed you'd be awake).
You never replied.
                                           This was normal for you.
                                              I knew you'd reply the next morning.

Then about ten o clock that night I knew, I knew, why you didn't reply. 
knew the change that occurred.
                                                                     You had passed away. We weren't quite sure of what.
                                                                      How, why, when...
We just knew you were gone. 
                                                       I didn't believe it. 
I remember crying. But I cry often in my dreams, and that's what this was.
A dream.
But as time went on, the reality of it became more prominent.  
                                                                               And after ten, long, months of not seeing my
-our- dad, I knew it had happened. 
 I knew I'd never see you.
Never text you.
Never talk to you again. 
                                                                                   And I remember every last detail of our conversations.
                                                                   Especially the one where you told me I was the only one you loved.
Me. Your little sister. Only half related to you.
But you were -are- the only sibling I have. And will ever have. 
                                         And still, I love you. 
I always will.
                                                                           And as the year closes, I'm nightmaring (yes I use nightmare as a verb)
                                                                                           a lot more.
                                                            But that dream, I knew you were gone before anyone else did.
                                                                           R.I.P Big Brother. R.I.P.
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I'm so sorry for your loss. death is a part of life but it shouldn't come too soon
of the way you talk about your brother I know you will meet again. love is greater than time, greater than anything :heart: 
once in a while I dream with my late grandfathers, they show up to make sure we're okay, they protect us