Before You Say Goodbye

by BOB GALLO   May 28, 2020


No more alone, no more me,
no more endless walls, fences.
- Separation
fences properties,
people,
hearts.-

I am ready to move in with you
in the world that will be soon
empty of you,
empty
without you!

I am not going to die though.
I am going to live.
I am going to live to celebrate life,
you,
your life
your presence in me,
the way you would have enjoyed
living it.

I bless you for the music
I bless you for the flower
I bless you for the hummingbirds of appetencies
I bless you for the funfairs of reminiscence
for the children songs in the playparks
I bless you for childhood carousels of joy
I bless you for every moment
that we grew up bouncing up and down
on the seesaw of childhood and parenthood
on the carousel of womanhood

I love you for the fountains
of adolescent dreams,
these pictures that are engraved in my soul,
these candles that are going to burn forever
in your eternal temple in my heart.

I bless you for your courage,
taking death like a spoonful of throat syrup
I use to give you when you coughed
I bless you for oceans that now I see in your soul
I bless you for eternity that now
looks exactly like you,
for the world that is going to look forever
as beautiful as
you
in my heart
before you said goodbye.

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