GOODBYE

 

When a person we love passes…when it’s time to say goodbye…

we think how ephemeral life is…how one day we all will die.

It makes us look at how we live…it might fill us with misgivings…

as we look a little closer at the life that we are living.

We’re blessed to cling to the people we love who are alive…

as we remember those who’ve died.

We think of the tears already shed…

as well as tears we’ve not yet cried.

Even though we understand it’s inevitable…that one day we all will say goodbye

we cannot stop our tears from flowing when a person we love dies.

We talk about the life they lived…we share memories we’ve made throughout the years

each memory brings a smile to our face…each smile accompanied by tears.

For a while our lives are filled with darkness we have trouble seeing the light.

Sadness clings to everything…it’s as if we’re blanketed by night.

But as time moves ever forward…the light starts peeking through…. 

and through the clouds of darkness…we begin to see the blue.

And we begin to realize…as each page of the calendar turns…

the person whose death made us so sad…would want our smile to return.

They’d want us to overcome our sorrow, our misery…our fears

to remember them with smiles…love and laughter…

and occasionally a few tears.

They’d want us to remember how blessed we were 

to have someone in our life whose passing made us sad enough to cry….

Lucky to have loved someone…

who made it so hard to say goodbye.