Ashes and Resolute

Same blood, same roots,

same family name,

Life took turns and nothing stayed the same.

Words left unsaid, years of hurt,

Built walls between us,

made good times worse.

I tried to make peace,

tried to leave shit behind,

Never thought I'd run out of time.

Now I'm stuck with memories,

questions, and pain, Wishing I could hear your voice again.

Some things stay broken,

some scars never mend,

But losing my brother ain't where our story ends.

That's my blood, that's my brother,

A bond like ours ain't replaced by another.

Through good and bad,

through everything we've been,

You're part of my story till the very end.

Tommy, I lost you,

but I'll honor your name,

Life keeps moving, but blood stays the same.

No matter the hurt,

no matter the pain,

You'll always be my brother till we meet again.

You were thirteen, just a kid back then,

Looking up to your brother,

thinking I'd always be there.

Before life got heavy,

before things went wrong,

Before years of silence kept dragging on.

You had your own mind,

stubborn as hell, Hard-headed as fuck,

and you knew yourself well.

You were my little brother,

that never changed, Even when time and distance rearranged everything.

I'd give anything to see that kid again,

Before all the hurt,

before where we'd end.

I'd tell him he's my brother,

no matter what we'd do,

Nothing in this world could change that truth.

We had our differences,

things left unresolved, But grudges and silence can't erase our past.

No halo, no bullshit,

no pretending you're perfect,

You were Tommy, real life,

with your flaws and your purpose.

I won't let your last day define your whole name,

You were more than your ending,

more than the pain.

You had your own life,

your own way to get through,

I won't make up stories or pretend that I knew.

We never fixed everything,

never cleared the air,

But years of being brothers don't just disappear.

That's my blood, that's my brother,

A bond like ours ain't replaced by another.

Through good and bad,

through everything we've been,

You're part of my story till the very end.

Tommy, I lost you,

but I'll honor your name,

Life keeps moving, but blood stays the same.

No matter the hurt,

no matter the pain,

You'll always be my brother till we meet again.

Wish we had more time,

wish we'd found our way,

Wish we had the words we never got to say.

But tears can't turn back clocks,

can't undo what's done,

So I'll carry what we had till my own race is run.

October seventeenth, twenty twenty-five,

The world kept turning,

but part of me died.

One date, one loss,

one permanent scar,

One brother gone, no matter where you are.

I won't call you perfect just to honor your name,

You were human like the rest,

with your own share of pain.

Whatever stood between us,

whatever went wrong, You're still my little brother,

and that bond lives on.

I hope you've found peace,

hope the pain's finally gone,

And if there's another side,

I'll see you again.

That's my blood...

That's my brother...

No grave can bury what we shared with each other.

Tommy,

I hope you're free from the weight and the pain,

Till the day I see you and we talk again.

October seventeenth...

The day you were taken away.

Tommy... We didn't fix everything.

We didn't say everything.

But you were my brother before the hurt,

before the distance, before the silence.

And you'll be my brother

after all of it.

Forever blood.

Rest easy, bro.