To Vermillion -

daring, dearest, dead.

'The weak die first,' but you were the strongest person I knew.

I waited for weeks to hear from you after that phone call,

for a while, I texted you each day, asking for advice and ranting about the things I loved,

I learned to speak from you. you were never shy, speaking everything that came to thought.

and I'd be lying, if I said I remembered your voice, and I don't think

that's something I could forgive myself for,

atleast I still remember your face.

I wonder, if in that dreaded hospital bed, if you thought of all our times together.

Like brother, like sister.

I chased you up a tree, as a dog does a squirrel,

that was the first time I'd ever climbed a tree, though you had to help me down.

It was also the day, you and dad nicknamed me puppy.

I still call you wormy in my mind, but slowly your memory fades. It's been almost 2 years now.

But, anyways, write back when you see this okay?

PS. your sister says she misses you.