When One Day We Say Goodbye

 

Today, we laugh and love and 

cherish every moment…

Today, we breathe a sigh of relief

at the having of each other.

Today we can smile in the sunshine

knowing the rain will pass 

after it comes, and yet,

when one day we say goodbye 

and nothing can console me,

because this day the rain doesn’t pass,

know, that I will be heart-broken;

Lost, in all the love I will still have for you,

even after you’ve gone. 

And again, I will be alone in this place,

having loved, and lost, but found

in me, the you that was always there, 

now known. 

And I will remember you and smile

at how alike we have always been,

and when I dream, you will greet me,

and I will tell you how I miss you,

how I thought of you the other day,

how I think of you everyday. 

And we will laugh and love

and as we are there, together, like now,

I will cherish every moment, awaiting

when I join you in the Now, beyond,

above the very essence of the universe,

We are connected still in that place, like now:

felt, but beyond sight, known, 

but unmeasured in its scope, 

and unfathomed in its depths…

I will fill In all these spaces 

with my love for you, until I join you again.

See, I believe this existence might be circular:

Nature and Spirit, amphibians peeling out 

of one atmosphere and into another. 

I will radiate this love for you in both places,

here and beyond. It is who I am.

I carry you and my love for you

into every reality I find myself in,

you are my constant in an unending 

stream of variables, and I know

that I will always be with you, 

but when I can’t touch you,

when I can’t feel your heartbeat,

I can’t breathe. Life,

but in suspension with 

these horrible thoughts of missing you.