The Silence of My Goodbye

*Fiction* I sit on this strong, gray rock, on the edge of the cliff I ponder all life has brought me, as I view the distant hills Shapes are formed in my vision, moving across them I watch the clouds float away, like the memories of you --- My heart breaks in two --- Cracked like the rock where I sit on the edge of life You are gone like the sunset, fallen beneath the land With darkness creeping in, consuming me, while breathless Everything I thought was real, seems to mean nothing Now, the days are as bland as the dried, brown grass below Waiting for winter to freeze the ground, to freeze the pain As I get up to leave, saying goodbye to sights, I say goodbye to you As the last single leaf falls through the air, touching my shoulder I look up at a tree now standing bare, in the silence of my goodbye Heidi Sands 9/26/17