Last Respects

The Power Of Two Words

 

Goodbye

Such a short

Knife in time

Ending moments

Splitting time in two

Before and after

So crisp

And clean 

Cuts on hearts

Cuts on souls

Final thoughts

Rest unsettled

On chest

And antacids

Don’t cure heart burn

I know

Because I tried

To smile

 And be fine

About

Two words

So sharp

And so hard

That they cut diamonds

Into fragments

Slash thoughts

And forever

On the drop of a dime

They make love invisible

Remove the finest person

You ever knew

In less time

Than it takes

To receive air into lungs

And goodbye

Means final resting place

The buck stops here

So to speak

Don’t look at me

As my eyes bleed

Tears of hurt

Run over

The incisions

On my soul

Goodbye

Is the best surgeon

I ever did know

Cutting life from hello

Cutting the life off of hello

And as my ink spits out last breaths

My pen in silence

Pays last respects

And on this line

You watch our death

As we lay our love

Our thoughts

And ink to rest