Tell Me No Goodbyes
What does "Goodbye" even mean?
Anyone? Somebody please help me
Understand this perplexing word
Suffused with melancholy.
Goodbye to what? To whom? Me?
Are you attending my wake?
Shhh, don't say it as if you don't know
I'm coming right back!
Funny how it never sounds less final
When said even with a smile?
I could never solve the mystery of it. And why
Do we say it with such pensive eyes?
Tell me no goodbyes
It's too early for that. I'm still busy living.
I give you carte blanche to do so
When you give my eulogy.
Why trouble my mind with such a word?
Instead, make my soul smile with
"See you soon," because you will
Before sundown.
I'm not lying dead in an open casket
Tell me no goodbyes, my dear friend.
I'm simply heading out.
I've got an errand to run.
Submitted for...
Your Best Free Verse So Far This Year Poetry Contest
Sponsored by John Hamilton
Date: 04/25/2021
COMPLETELY YOUR CHOICE(40) any theme any form Poetry Contest
(Winner: 10th Place)
Sponsored by Brian Strand
Date written: 01/09/2021
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