I dreamed of you
a few days later
as I slept in the room next to yours.

You did not know you had died
and I thought that maybe
they had made a mistake.

You were just asleep
and you would be okay
but then I remembered 
as they took you away.

I tried to make up for 
all the ways that I failed
and do all the things
I should have done.

But you did not understand
and I could not explain
why things were different.

I woke up that morning
and every morning since
knowing that things would
keep being different
until they appeared normal again.