Once we knew we were losing you, we acted fast, we booked
tickets that same day, for a week away. We averted facing our grief through
action, forward movement. Whatever else, we would get to see you again. Then I
entertained a daydream of us, the wee gang we had just been forming before you
got that news: having a laugh together, standing on a hill, posing, looking out
to sea, of us driving, through the beauty, in the bubble of each other’s
company. Or if we couldn’t do that, sat having a coffee, listening to each
other’s voices, enjoying the moment. That moment would signify all of the other
potential moments we never got to have.
