Saying Goodbye

The best advice I was given

2012

Feel all meaning of your loss leaving

and watch it float away,

then what comes next will have

its own heave and grace.

Experience the full weight of your pain;

hear the music of the tragedy of your loss.

Throw out the protective layers 

of fear and excuses,

have the courage to cry and acknowledge

the loss and say, Goodbye.

Wallow not in your own mourning, rather ask,

How was my life enriched?

From: A Rambly Search for Innocence, Time, and Love

Unpub. MS p. 38