the sparkling brilliance of new york city, the woodsy, misty air of seattle, the pulsing electricity of hong kong... they will have just one thing in common, and that is that you don't, you won't, exist in those worlds.

i don't see you anymore. i don't know where you are or what you are doing. but i do know that memories of you remain in the people and places around me. and as long as that's true, the imprint of you will stay with me.

this year i'm going to say goodbye to southern california and home as i know it, for some time. i don't know when. i don't know where i'm going. but i need a place to call mine that you haven't touched. streets and houses and friends and lovers that bear no inkling of your presence.

you always believed in me, always told me that staying here wouldn't be enough for me, that i would do bigger and better things. you'll likely never know that you are the reason i had to.

i want to wish you well
i didn't watch you go
because i suppose i don't know how
i will remember you
not the way you left but how you lived
and what you knew

i want to feel your hands
i want to feel your fire burning
right from where i stand

i'll find my way
because you showed me how

i want to know it's you
when i hear your voice inside my head
inside my room
i want to touch the sky
i want to see the stars twinkle
like they were your eyes

i want to smell your scent
i want to breathe the air i did
before you left

i want to wish you well
the only reason my heart beats
is because you showed it how

katie herzig.