Moonlight ( A collection of poems)

Au revoir

It
took so so long to say goodbye

When they left

We stumbled over remarks at how quickly time passed us by

Drifted into conversations we had not enough time to explore

Until silence announced the inevitable

And even then

It took so so long to say goodbye

Words left unsaid were exchanged with glances
The kind only closeness will allow you to interpret

Until that dreadful time to say goodbye had arrived

This time  ignored for now
smiling faces as we ignore the goodbye

I'll see you later, au revoir

It is kinder to think of the fact that sometimes separation is not permanent

Until one day the phrase remains ever so haunting

As you stare at an ellipses on the final page and you wish  you faced the goodbye then
Until you wish you said anything more than a common phrase

That excluded the notion, the slightest idea that sometimes goodbyes are final

And the next time you say it

Your vision  would be blurred
Throat stung by hornets
As they slept peacefully in a satin lined coffin

And you say what you could never bear to say before

It was way to soon to say goodbye