Today I drove my friend to have her most beautiful dog, Olivia, put to sleep. In her honor a poem came for all the goodbyes I have made or ever will make. Today could be our last day. I will love while I can.
Goodbye Olivia and your sweet loving eyes, pools of wonder, and the little stick or gift you would bring me every time I came over.
Goodbye Beaver, your beauty and unending devotion
Goodbye Ray and your sexy lopsided smile and your stories of galavanting through the world
Goodbye to my children being babies I can hold
Goodbye to nursing and falling asleep with a baby in my arms
Goodbye to toddlers running through my house
Goodbye to being the mother of giddy children who dance and do somersaults on the couch
Goodbye to endless hours of reading to children in bed
Goodbye to my youthful skin and long dark hair
Goodbye to having a young sexy body
Goodbye to the joy of playing dressing up and admiring my maidenhood
Goodbye to big eyes to put mascara on
Goodbye to talking to my best friend on the phone for hours
And Goodbye to the years my mother was my best friend and we reveled in the joy of having been brought together
Goodbye to my mother
And to my father, getting ready to leave this world
My protectors and admires.
Goodbye to the drama and excitement of youth and being in love for the first time
Goodbye to innocence and hopes and dreams
Goodbye falling in love with writing and dancing and music
Goodbye to my children, I hope I leave first and you weep and weep and then have a beautiful world to carry on in
Goodby to partners and all the pulling and struggling we did
And all the sharing and being there for each other
Goodbye to gardens and trees and leaves and all the wonderful sounds of the world
And the million of shades of color
Goodbye cold air and warm sun and moon light
Goodbye to the hum of life and tortured humanity, I love you and forgive you
And I am so grateful to have seen you and felt you.
