Goodbye: Forever or Not?

We said goodbye,

But you said goodnight,

Because to you goodbye is forever;

You were mad at the ones who pulled us apart,

I was sorrow-filled.

Sitting on a rock,

High in the hills,

Looking out onto my vast surroundings,

Knowing that you're a mere hour away by car,

And yet unable to go to you.

Is this what life's always like,

It seems so to me:

Just an endless wheel of going from loving the lost and loving the ones around you,

And so on,

Never finding that long plain where the one you don't want to lose stays,

And while that may seem eternal,

Even that has an end,

Which comes when you least expect it.

- Michael Hall