Goodbye, forever

[HappyBuddha]

I hugged him, and let the tears that had been threatening all the long night I had stayed up come through, there early in that last morning in paradise

 

I could not summon the strength to speak for a long wait, and then I finally croaked out a few miserable words, words which could not capture the totality of what I wanted to say to a man I might never see again

 

He replied; his few words somehow capturing everything I needed to hear

 

I released, I drove off; the tears would stay

[Regel]

It touched me. Seems like the kind of goodbye we all would hope for.