HelloGoodbye (for Fred)

I never knew

Your dad and

Now that he’s

Gone I never

Will but I

Can promise you

This if he

Made such a

Marvelous man like

You he must’ve

Been even more

Marvelous please say

Both my hello

And goodbye to

Him for me

LoveBike

Oh in love

I’m a child

On his first

Bike all wobbly

Steadied by another

Eventually pushed glide

For a bit

Then fall skinning

Hearts and elbows

I try again

Remembering the feeling

Of flying and

Fall many times

Eventually I will

Ride with freedom

Protecting my elbows

And my heart

GoodbyeHello

And oh damn

Just as we

Started the news

Came of goodbyes

But they weren’t

Ours they belong

To someone else

Apart we are

But now closer

Than together mourning

Your painful loss

I’m still here

Right here where

You left me

Say your goodbyes

Then come back

To your hello

SoulsGoodbye (for Fred)

The hardest goodbyes

Are those unsaid

Like being underwater

You never had

The chance because

He left too

Soon let your

Heart bleed now

For the dead

Can hear the

Souls silent weeping

ComeBack

And today you’re

Farther away than

Far heading west

Like the sun

Taking your warm

Glow with you

Moored here I

Call but you’re

On a journey

Of good byes

Say them and

Return to me

Like spring after

The winters deadness