The greeting that brings love
Liefdegroete
And then there are the greetings that open up the past
And a host of hellos and goodbyes
Flood memory
Of joy and tears
And years shared or missed in between
I don't want to go there
Back to my young adult self which raced and adventured and won
And lost
To have to remember the goodbyes again
I am too fragile today
And so a friend I made so recently
Sends "liefdegroete"
While I weep for the friend of my teens
Because having not yet said hello, we have already said goodbye
And.
That is the way it is.
(To the tune of the song you wrote for me when we were teenagers. In the year before I lost a mother, my song was "some day... one day." Friend, I wish we had a "today". But these moments I'll grab with you... oh, I hurt. )
