For years every night, while you were sleeping, she talked to you, asked questions, protected you, and promised that she would give you everything… But she could only give you what she had.

Now, she visits you at night and talks to you in your dreams. She comes to let you know that she is still protecting you, holding you, and kissing your eyes filled with tears.

You understood she had to go. She knew it was going to happen. Many times, while flying with her to the stars you pleaded, "Please, don't go." She would answer, "My love will always care for you; my love will always embrace you." That was the way it had to be. She always said that a bird cannot be caged because it belongs to the sky, the breeze, the sun. "The love of a bird is too big to be restrained," she used to say. "The same way our love has moved and danced throughout our lives will stay alive forever because we built it that way."

You let her fly because you love her and she loves you. You screamed her name to the stars and cried until your eyes and heart hurt. After the cry, you would wash your face to start the process of loving her from the distance. You both practiced this before her departure. Many times she would walk to a corner of the room a few feet away from you, and sitting on the floor she would ask you to close your eyes, "I will be flying up-above looking for the best views we can share. Whatever I see, you will see. My wings will take you wherever we want to go. You will touch me with your thoughts, and I will kiss you in your dreams." Now it was your time to let her see that her efforts were not in vain.