Familiar Love

They were the bravest person I ever knew.

They fought every day for what we all knew was a noble cause.

I know they saved me more than once.

We joked that when they... died... that it would be me they would be saving.

Turns out I was wrong.

We were both fighting when it happened, we were on the same battlefield. But I never saw them get hurt, never saw the person who laid the killing bow.

I found them when they were too far gone, and I couldn't save them. They didn't even get a final word, they were in too much pain.

I spent too long trying to save them, that I forgot to say goodbye.