Saying goodbye

So now you have left us,
having run through the number of your days
which we did not know were ending,
but we came upon
like a fallen tree blocking the road
just after we rounded the bend.
We slammed on the breaks
and everything came to a stop - 
we could see our lives frozen
in the ice of time
and we stood outside 
waiting for the sun to melt us
back into a new reality - 
one without you.