Erik

How do you say goodbye

To someone you don't know?

A thousand miles away

Too scared, I can't fly home

It was his decision

To stop his medication

Did he bring it on himself

With self-medicating?

Despite this evidence

My anger's less than love

The disease that started this

It lives within my blood

First went his liver

Then went his kidneys

An expiration date?

But he's a human being

Hair longer than mine

A prodigy with earrings

Every instrument

Musical engineering

He's only thirty-four

My memories are few

I just want him to know

Erik, I love you.