Leaving Fringer Prints Behide

You wake up to another day
turn on the news
another life has been taken
the world always in chaos.
You look at your phone
you have a voice mail and a text
from the same person.
You see the text first 
and wonder whats going on
and then you hear their voice.
Its different than it usually is
the tune is sad and desperate
you mute the TV
to hear them better.

You call them
they don't answer
and the panic starts to take over
and you try again while looking at the TV
and then their picture
comes up.
You become paralyzed and drop the phone
without noticing it slipping through your fingers
and your heart sinks
tears start dripping from your eyes.
You think this cant be true
why are they joking like this
but you know its true.

You try to figure it out in your head
the why to every part of it.
Why didn't they wait?
Why did they have to go?
Why?

You look down at them
angry at them
for leaving the way they did.
You see them in your mind
the times they made you laugh
and the times they made you smile.
The way they saw the world
and the way they were going to change it.
The way they saw you and everyone they care about
and how they cherish every little thing.
You think they had so much ahead of them.

Days later they still cross your mind
and wish they were still here
and could talk to them.
So then you listen to the voice mail
they tell you thank you and that they love you at the end of it
the rest doesn't matter.
They cross your mind in the unusual ways
maybe in the way someone acts
maybe in the way of a topic
cause you know what they would say
maybe in the way
they touch your heart.

You never completely forget about them
cause they left their finger prints on your heart
and no matter what others say
you are thankful
for those finger prints.