All is in the mind and in the heart: <br />there are no empires and no entities, <br />nought can be owned and nought possessed, <br />in mind nor heart; our parents, partners, kith and kin <br />are but changing shadow puppets in <br />the self-constructed drama of our life - <br /> <br />and this the humbling truth, which in our mind we know <br />yet in our heart, wish that it were not so; <br />loving the flight of free and graceful birds <br />yet wishing all within the golden net <br />of our own love - that love which can so quickly seem to go... <br /> <br />and so, since we can never own those things <br />which bring us all our joys and all our life <br />we can no more say hello nor goodbye <br />when all is all within, yet all without... <br /> <br />this freedom should bring joy - were we so bold <br />that in ourselves, we knew it to be so; <br />so, meeting some new face, know it to be - ourself; <br />and saying goodbye - be it to dust and ashes said - <br />know, what we never owned, can never lose; <br /> <br />for 'hello' was an ancient wish - 'be whole and well', <br />and 'goodbye' meant 'God be with ye' in a distant age; <br />'fare well' a blessing too, a wish beyond <br />our view of self, and loss - or death - or gain; <br />and thus beyond all pleasure lost, or pain; <br /> <br />what cannot be acquired can not be lost; <br />'goodbye, my love' a frail, transparent ghost; <br />love weeps beside the grave's heart-rending sorrow, <br />yet lives to love, heart beat again, the morrow.<br /><br />Michael Shepherd<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/fare-well-and-yet-goodbye-to-all-farewells/
