When I Lived & Loved

I found a picture today
taken about this time last year
and I look at you holding me
me holding you
and we are smiling
like we are the luckiest people alive
and at that time
holding you, loving you
I felt like the luckiest man alive
with the way your smile
lit up the sky
brighter than the sun
a smile so wonderful
so beautiful
that I believe
even angels were jealous
of you on that day of magic
of roller coasters and ice cream
of love for you
so great
William Shakespeare would cry
for you and I
and for what we had that day
that no one
not even god
could take away
it’s been almost a year now since you left
taking my heart
taking the very reason for living
but I still have this picture
taken from the happiest moment of my life
to remind me
what it was like to be loved
and what it was like to truly live