GENTLY SAYING GOODBYE

(Dedicated to those whose love 

is greater than their pain.)

By Amy L. Chaves

(November 8, 1999)

How many times have we gently said goodbye

to moments of togetherness,

to love's blue sky?

How many times have we gently said goodbye

to aching arms and mournful eyes

that wonder why?

Perhaps it is best to say gently our goodbyes

to elude the shattering of dreams

that never were and never will.

I wonder if this time we are gently saying goodbye

to memories of feverish kisses

on a Monday morning,

to nights of cold December?

But can we ever gently say goodbye

to moments of truth and

surges of great pleasures?

when soul and body intermingle in the

sweetness of love

that knows no bounds, that knows no end?

No, we can never say goodbye

to love, to life and meaning.

No, we never say goodbye to nights and days,

to dreams, to hopes , and to all our yearnings.

This poem is never meant to gently say goodbye.

It is meant to say "hello" and

"I love you."

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