Goodbye sweet friend

Goodbye

Goodbye dear friend. You’ve left this tragic story
Whose twisting plot I’ve failed to comprehend-
New chapters once foretold of hidden glory,
But now are bleak reminders of the end.

The only truth of which one may be certain
Assails the soul with terror and surprise-
The fading glow, the closing of the curtain,
The final breath and flutter of the eyes.

The gales of grief diminish temporally
As barren deserts rise to take their place,
My feet propel me onwards, though just barely,
And tears shall soon return to wet my face.

The bouts of pain, ineffable emotion,
Like specters in the gloaming take their form
Then fade as waves into the stoic ocean,
Whose shapeless voids give respite from the storm.

I gaze into a world with flesh still throbbing
Eternally submerged by shades of time
That promise me, the din of mortal sobbing
Shall disappear with one predestined chime.

Goodbye dear friend. My heart is still your dwelling
So long as it is beating in my chest,
How long will we reside there? There’s no telling
For in this world, I too am but a Our mortal fate is calling from a distance
And makes me crave that nascent glow of dawn-
So grasp its light and grasp this very instance
For it is all you have! … and now it’s gone.guest.

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