From Goodbyes To Hellos

How many goodbyes are in a lifetime? 

Saying goodbye
 to go to school
 to go to work
 to travel separately away
 to end a visit that lags until the next time.

Who knows or recognizes that last final goodbye?

Knowing
 can be a gift or an obligation
 allowing final preparations
 to say what needs and may otherwise
 not be said.

Would that be the blessing
 in believing,  trusting,
 in having faith
 that we would me again
 without anymore goodbyes.

Looking forward then
 to that last and final
Hello.





8/31/2015
Copyright © | Year Posted 2015

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August 31, 2015 at 6:44 PM
Very well done. Don't know if I could handle the responsibility of knowing.
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