To my brother, on the day before your daughter becomes mine
This past year has been such a mixed bag of emotions for me. The loss of you has been so difficult to reconcile in my mind that for much of the time I have avoided thinking too deeply about it. It feels like a great, yawning black hole of sadness that if I looked too long I would fall in and shatter and never find all the pieces of me again. Someday I will have the strength to put pen to paper and set this pain free, but for now I will hold it prisoner until it beats down the [...]
