For a friend gone too soon.
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Flame in the Wind
You could’ve walked on water.
You knew I thought that… right?
“You can do ANYTHING you want to.”
With your thirst to learn, uncover;
and the way at which you fought so hard for so long;
how you were built to create, to educate;
and you had overcome so much already…
you were destined to do all the things they tell us we will do.
A burning flame in the wind—
powerful, mighty, ferocious—
you shone through. And then…
you escaped me,
your flame out far too soon.
I know one thing.
I will learn to stop the wind.
