just those three

Copyright © March 28, 2002 by Richard J. Sereday Jr.
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I did not get to say goodbye last night.
It was something that I truely missed,
as you slipped away without a sound.

Yes, I did say hello upon your arrival,
but your parting left me in great sorrow,
for I knew not of it’s coming,
though I knew that time would come.

I wonder what our goodbye 
might have been and in my mind I knew.

I had told you of the beauty that in you I saw,
but that one more thing I wished I had said
from my mouth had never come,

and I wondered what the point would be
in telling you such a thing, 
but still I wished that I had.

The words did never come, but from my eyes,
and my touch and our sweet embraces
as we melted into one, if only for a time.

Such simple words to say, only just those three,
but to live up to them, how many can, 

This I do ponder.