Aaron, it feels like such a long time,
only months ago.
Your calm voice,
your animal socks,
dotted lines that became blurred
as healing occurs.
You felt like a friend
someone I could trust
and I still do.

The laughter,
the crying,
and the conversations
made connecting concrete,
reminding me, that’s what it’s all about.

I trusted you with my everything.
I’d still, if I ran into you.

You wanted me to heal.
You wanted me to value myself
to keep on stepping, one step to two.
Thanks to you,
I’m still breathing,
just being, one day at a time.

I’d be lying if I said I didn’t fear my future.
Remembering your voice,
your advice,
I’m confident I can make something
out of a small nothing.

4 responses to “Animal socks”

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    Yolanda – Aspergers syndrome – Poetry – Photography/edit – Art – Mental illness

    Cute:D

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      BrittnyLee

      Thank you 😊😊

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    WanderingCanadians

    Beautiful poem. We all need an Aaron in our life. It’s amazing how someone’s support, kindness and wisdom can have such a profound impact.

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      BrittnyLee

      It really does. He was one of the therapists that was in patient and outpatient. He was the one who brought up the hard stuff and really got to the nitty gritty but it’s how you heal. I’ll forget him or J , c, another Aaron, k, a,and t. All were so influential and positive . I could tell they actually cared.

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