LAURA

I don’t want to thank you
for all the beautiful things
you have given me,
but for all the painful ones
you have taken away;
not for the emptiness you have filled,
but for the burdens you have lifted from me;
not for the happy moments
we have shared,
but for staying by my side
through the painful ones.

I don’t want to thank you
for what you have done for me,
but for the fact that,
despite everything,
you still keep doing it.