Saying Goodbye

In a blink of the eye

As if it was a shadow of imagination

Flashing across the corner of our eyes

Goodbye to our world

One hundred and twenty million seconds

Thirty five thousand hours

One thousand four hundred days

Goodbye to four years

Laughter echoing from the ether

Tears all untouched and pristine

Hugs have become phantom memories

Goodbye to my friends

The familiar beyond miles of fog

Lost with only a flashlight

Without a blazed trail

Goodbye to my compass

I once thought I knew it all

But now I finally realized

Knowing is not a substitute for living

And so I said

Goodbye

I will love you

Forever.

-FCDH

06/12/2011