MEMORIES OF YOU

Memories which you inhabit
shimmer in the air
like vagrant children of fate
searching for something.
Weren't you supposed to have a destiny?
Something more than simply disappearing?
Something closer to
cultivating
unharvested brilliance
to dazzle society
with treasures
that they didn't even know existed,
but that were already at their fingertips.
Within the breath of their culture,
just waiting to be inhaled
if they knew the direction to look,
but ripe to be revealed
by your smile.
What a great loss it is
to society
if you disappeared.

Copyright ©2018 Ashi Shadow - 5/21/18 on Averi.
On her smile.
On how she inspired me and could inspire so many others, or so I felt, if she lived as completely and happily as she should.
(And I feel like she won't)