When You Say Goodbye Poem by RIC BASTASA

as you say it
so shall it be done
the word shall speak
for itself

res ipsa loquitor

you shall embrace
a new self again
like a creature's way
of shedding its skin

like the seasons
like the way everything blooms anew
like the flowers

like the wilting of the petals
and the rotting of the leaves
the fungal deterioration of the roots

like life
like us

we shall venture anew to another world
finding a new path
where we shall not be hurt
we shall have learned how to cut
and cut clearly

no regret
you bet.