Saying goodbye

How much do you love someone?
Is it hard to say goodbye?
But you know you'll see them again,
You just don't know when.

How about when you know,
It's the last goodbye?
When you know you'll never
See them again. Ever.

She had cancer and she had had it
For quite a while.
You could tell; and it had done its evil
Something you could feel.

We said goodbye. She knew and I knew
This was going to be the last time
We looked into each others' eyes and cried
We laughed with each other at our happier memories.

We hoped things were going to turn around but,
We both knew the end was in sight.
It wasn't possible to deny.
I looked deep into her eyes, those eyes had taught me,

The meaning of the literary term,
"A twinkle in the eye."
I knew I'd never see it again.
I held her close as we prepared to part for the last time.

Tears from from her eyes to my chest and
From my eyes to her skin
Our bodies shook together with sobbing
We became one in our sorrow

But we were one in our happy memories of the
Beauty of our friendship, the happiness we had had
For all those years and for all those smiles.
As we parted ways, we cried.

We knew each others' sorrow, felt each others' pain
Suffered each others' suffering
But we smiled as we knew the other smiled
And our hearts began to share with one another.

She still lives in me. My memories of her will endure
Forever and ever.

--Wag--