No Real Goodbye

You are every hue

That brightens every rainbow’s arc

You are in the shine

That reaches Earth from every star

You’re the cooling breeze

That glides in, on waves of sea

You are always near

Through all these ways to call to me

You are in the acorn seed

That grows the mighty oak

You’re in the childlike giggle

After every silly joke

You glow in every dawn

Which brings all my brand-new days

But there’s an echo in each dusk

Of the day you went away

But, how can I hate the rainbow

When its colours shine so bright?

Begrudge the stars their sparkle

When they bring beauty to each night?

When I walk along the beach

I breathe your heavenly force

So I cannot blame the elements

‘Though I miss our life, of course

Gratitude I offer up

For all the time we spent together

I realise this loneliness

Won’t have this hold forever

I know we’re all to shed our skin

Grown wings so we can fly

And I know that all these memories

Mean we didn’t really say goodbye