Atypical & Awesome “Vapor”

We said goodbye to Adam on Monday and this morning we prepare to say goodbye to Dave. My heart hurts. I’d like to share with you a lyric I wrote years ago after a different tragic loss but it rings true:

Vapor

Like a vapor

You came and went

Like a rainbow

You faded so quick

Like a whisper

I can hear you still

If I listen closely

Guess I always will

You are the wind and the trees

I feel you in the touch of the breeze

I see you in the star-filled sky

I know you’re looking over me tonight

Like a vapor

You came and went

Like a rainbow 

You faded so quick

Like a wave crashing on the shore

A mist across an early morning field

Like an echo across a mountainside

Like a vapor you came and went

Yeah, you faded so quick

Carmen Melton Bennett 2019