I hope this isn’t too late.
It’s been a while since we talked, haven’t seen you in a couple years. I know I live right down the street from you but we seem to have fallen apart since the accident.
I remember the days we spent together now, the life we had. I remember making the mementos and wearing them all the time. I remember the road trips we took, the laughter and the tears, the pain and the pleasure. I remember the ice cream and Snoopy your puppy, and how you used to let him eat from the same cone as you did. I remember how you used to love me. I remember everything.

I never meant to forget. It was out of my power to control the events of that day; the last words I forgot being the harshest, the cruelest. I’m sorry that when I went for that drive two years ago, to clear my head, I left you without apologizing. I just want you to know that you meant, mean everything to me and the times we had together were the happiest of my life. I loved you and still do, and I miss holding you close and listening to you breathe as you slept.

Thank you for giving these memories back to me. I’m going to miss your beautiful smiling face. I’ll always remember you.

The happiness of the memories is just as painful as the knowledge that they will never happen again. I step forward and place the note with a flower on the lowering casket. Goodbye.