We end here -
Do not cry.

We would have
ended anyway
like everything else.

We’re just a little
early. And this is OK.

This is OK because
some things die
early and some things
live long.

Some things are
bright; some things
are dark.

There is the moon
and there is the sun.

There is everything,
and then there is none.

You admired variety -
and said to me, Look,
look at how this tree
is taller than this one,
and still they make a
beautiful forest together.

Now we are a part of
this variety. We are
the short trees that

received little sunlight until
we lost the competition.

But do not worry -
we have become a part
of something you once
admired. We add

variety, an opposite,
a polarity.

This is all we are
meant to be.

And so are the others -
whatever they may be.