goodbye – The Messy Middle 🖤

Goodnight Moon.

Goodnight butterflies.

Goodnight fireflies.

Goodnight crying eyes.

Goodnight laughing kisses,

and every day blisses.

Goodnight you.

Goodnight me.

Goodnight to all of the things we didn’t get to be.

Goodnight to all we did not see.

Goodnight love,

and goodnight again, to all of the above.

–S.

I don’t say I love you because I don’t.

I don’t say I’ll miss you because I won’t.

I say I’ll see you around because I probably will,

but I don’t want you thinking that time is standing still.

-S.

I collect your goodbye.

I place it with the others.

I collect the darkness.

And all that it smothers.

I collect the grief.

And my own disbelief.

I collect the dust.

And the rust.

–S.