Empire State Building
Distorted and magnified
As I stare straight ahead

Grief washes over me
It tickles my tows
Before a rogue wave takes out my knees

Almost two years
And it still feels like yesterday
The news hitting hard, but not computing

I regret not reaching out more
Not attempting to visit again
Being unsure what to say and do

I try to remember the good times
From years past
A decade feels like a lifetime ago

Now I'm sitting on my kitchen floor
Legs splayed out in front of me
As I stare down a bottle of New Amsterdam

But I refuse to take a drink
Your words could be blunt and cutting
So I'm not numbing the pain in your honor