A connection that unites two lights throughout life. Brief encounters that flicker in my mind reveal no actual conversations about morals, religion, emotions, desires or even the world around us. Instead, all I recall is happiness, laughter, and an ease of knowing, another made from the same mold. This indubitable likeness would live on without commitment, or even contemplation because it was destiny. Both were on a path, a light to bring to life, a twinkle of happiness to spread, a belief that the world could be made better, and the belief that there was time to explore before the edge between greatness and death. The edge that came on an unexpected night that creeps into my mind at peculiar times. The tears well up in my eyes and fall shamelessly to the ground. The world may never know how precious the light that went dark that night.
