I Don’t Want to Say Goodbye

I don’t want

To say goodbye

So I won’t

Because goodbye

Is so final

It’s like a promise

Broken ,

It’s the words

We left unspoken.

I don’t want

To say goodbye

Because that’s a closing

Not the opening

And though your gone

I’ll see you again

Perhaps where the

Angels trod.

I don’t want

To say goodbye

So I’m not

I’ll bid you

Farewell for

Now

Until it’s time

For that happy

Heavenly reunion.

I don’t want to bid

You goodbye

It sounds so final

Like the ending

Etched in permanent

Marker

So I’ll say

Ciao for now

Both hello

And goodbye

It seems

Appropriate

Somehow

(C) Michelle R Kidwell

January.07.2022