Nothing hurt.

Hey dear friends. Hey sweet family. I love you.
I love you.
I know we're leaving now, and it's frustrating.
We've built families, we've built homes,
we've built lives,
and now we're leaving.
But I promise it'll be good again
that we'll be together again
at the end of it all.
Everything will be restored--
I know it! I've seen it.
It's like Chuck-E-Cheese's, except better.
So much better.
It's really bright and loud
but in a warm and enveloping sense
and not overwhelming.
All of the games work!
Even my favorite one
where you smack the alligator's noses.
And you win the ticket jackpot every time.
Everyone is having fun and smiling and laughing
and the tubes don't hurt your knees
as you climb through them.
There are bears in tutus too!
And elephants dancing,
shaking to tunes of a grandstand band,
their colorful backdrop consisting of fluttering confetti
flittering and flashing the entire way down.
We get to share meals again.
And not just the cardboard pizza
with ketchup and old cheese on top.
Real food.
The table is really long and everyone is there,
where they have both Coke and Pepsi,
and each are balanced just right.
Not flat. And not that terrible
over-carbonated bitter solution
that's even worse because it ALWAYS
catches you off guard.
I promise you I tell you the truth,
I love you too much to lie about this.
Everything was beautiful
and nothing hurt.