To a dear friend

I always had a word ready for my friends but when are you, talking to me from your age... I feel so inexperienced and unable to say anything to make you feel better, I’m telling you the stories from my family, my parents in Portugal, my little sister crashing her car and I love how surprised you look at me “She drives already?!” , little but not so little - I say - she’s 21 this year. I feel like time stops looking at you in this bed, unable to breathe properly, fatiguing so much to spill word after word. Smell like death and hospital around us, but you manage to keep a decent aspect being the same person I’d spend afternoons with smoking cigarettes and drinking Italian wine. You still joke about things; when the nurse asks you if she can measure your blood pressure you go “What would you not do for a lady” in your clean and perfect Italian. I always appreciate talking to you, hearing about your stories at the casino, about your beloved sword, about the martial arts. I appreciate you, my friend. 

I’m walking with you, every day, even when I’m not there. 

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