I may never see you again.
I’m not trying to be morbid,
it’s just true. But that’s not
the reason I hug you so long,
so close. It’s just because
it feels so good to hold you,
your arms in my arms,
your laugh so familiar,
my smile so real, so unhidden.
True in the ever-present living, for all the living, but particularly touching because it reads personally.
I’m thinking your second line is unneeded and breaks the poem’s spell (and promise). Instead, perhaps this:
I may never see you again—/it’s just true. But that’s not/…
Also, I’d remove, “just,” from the fifth/middle line. The line is cleaner, stronger without it:
…/so close. It’s because/…
And I love your saying that your smile is “so unhidden.”