We sat in the soft dusk

The air heavy with a silence we couldn't shake.

Our friend was gone

But still we held his name between us.

It was a question unspoken, but felt by all.

 

One spoke first, his eyes distant.

The sea, where the water meets the sky

In the vastness, the endless horizon.

There he could be free

Carried far and beyond, like the wind

But never truly gone.

 

Another voice, steady but broken.

In the mountains 

Let him rest where earth meets the heavens

Where the air is thin.

There, he'll be quiet 

Immovable and untouched by time.

 

And in I chimed

With a sadness that was almost peaceful.

Let him lie in the jungle

Where the trees hold secrets

And the ground remembers things.

Where life pulses at every breath.

And there he'll grow and fade

Side by side with the trees.

 

Each place felt right

And yet none of them felt enough.

For what truly mattered

Was the bond we'd shared

The way he had lived in us

And would continue to live.