Time is passing, tick tock, tick tock,
The hands keep moving on the clock
Minutes are speeding one by one
From early dawn till setting sun.
How fast our lives do melt away
While none have found a way to stay
Help us, oh Lord, to seek a trail
Where excess time may be for sale.
Let’s close our eyes and hope and pray
That tomorrow could be the day
We’ll ring a bell and yell ” surprise ”
And never more exchange goodbyes !
Now I have had a thousand dreams
And planned at least a hundred schemes
I’ve wished perhaps five hundred more
Before I close life’s final door.
I’ve tried so hard to not pretend
That I know how my days will end
Ere I have had the time to leave
Instructions as to how you grieve.
Remember me please, If you do
But only of my love for you
I can not ask for some thing more
Except, my dear, just one encore !
Do you know why I’m missing you
From early morn till nightfall too
I cannot bear you are not here
Please bundle up, get back in gear.
The sky is falling, have you heard
My heart hangs onto every word
Tis true, I shan’t see you again
But no regrets, remember when !
TO FRIENDS AND LOVED ONES DEPARTED FROM MY LIFE
The open window invites the breeze
To sashay in from beneath the trees
Take a dance around a room or two
Sharing fresh air between me and you.
Enjoy the night times secret pleasure
Amidst the joys we all do treasure
Remember how fast the seasons fly
Before we each have to bid goodbye
As the nights grow cool before the dawn
And the years we loved are too soon gone !
There was a dream that I once knew
When you loved me and I loved you
So long ago in years gone by
Before we had to say goodbye.
I stood there all alone that day
The day that God took you away
Somehow I didn’t comprehend
Was this the way our lives would end ?
Now here am I still standing tall
Awaiting God’s last curtain call
Stay with me Lord, I need Your strength
To get me through this final length !
I hear the train move on the track
I think it says ” click-clack, click-clack “,
And wings upon the breeze to here
Appearing to be ever near.
Our journey soon will reach its end
Without our luggage or dear friend
We’ve bid goodbye as trav’lers do,
Goodbye, so long and toodle-oo !
Before I entered in life’s maze
I’d been alive a thousand days
I walked and talked and learned to sing
Good manners came with everything.
My mother, she was but sixteen
Had never been a high school queen
She was my best friend my whole life
Through happy days and those of strife.
The hard times came, then went away
But left the scars of yesterday
Sometimes when I do quiet sit
Those memories may be relit.
I’ve often wondered how we did
When daddy died, I was a kid
Today the days just seem to fly
I must learn now to say goodbye !
I really don’t know how to hide
This sadness that I feel inside
I’ve tried so hard to do it right
E’en though I’m lost, night after night.
The ache is there and won’t subside
And all because my child has died
Love’s all we’ve got no matter what
The grief remains though we may not.
I love you now, I always will
Until my heart at last is still !
There are so many varied things that I have learned to do
Twixt time and need and fuss and rush before my life is through
Yet I recall the one and all that is most overdue
I’ve tried so hard, I don’t know how, I cannot say “adieu” !
TO MY SON.
Oh my dearest child, what shall I do
When your time on earth with us is through
As your voice is silenced fore’er more
You will knock no more upon my door.
We shan’t have those chats of heart to heart
Like we did before we had to part
I’ll miss you for my remaining days
Remembering your familiar ways.
This will not change and can never be
Since God has chosen to set you free !
T O D E N O , L O V E M O M
We’ll miss you love, when you have gone
And seek God’s strength to carry on
Twill be so strange as in this case
We’ll ne’er again meet face to face.
Nor shall we ever ” tete a tete ”
As soon we may tend to forget
How much we pray for one last kiss
Too late we all have been remiss !
The pages of the calendar do fly
Like storm tossed leaves across a windy sky
Days of our lives now swiftly pass us by
Their hours, minutes all whispering goodbye !
At times I sense a whistle
As it rides upon the wind
There silent as the thistle
While it begs, “please let me in”.
When the moment seems to die
And the quiet does not bend
All the world whispers “goodbye”
And each friendship must now end !
I hear the sounds of early morning now
Somewhere in the distance, a mooing cow
With traffic passing on a busy road
The whir of truck tires with their heavy load
The predawn mist that finds it’s meant to stay
On a day that seems dark and dullish grey
As the tides roll in they all crash ashore
Just to wash away what was here before !
How often I have wished that I
Could spread my wings and learn to fly
O’er mountain peaks there rising high
Across the meadows whisking by
The waters stretched to touch the sky
While gravity on earth denies.
Along the ridges wide and dry
Where eaglets nest and flight imply
I hear the mighty oceans sigh
And whisper to this world goodbye !
GOD BLESS HIS WORLD !
Seems like old age is sneaking up on me
Urging to make way for reality
And join the varied seasons passing by
As all the fragments of each year do fly.
With all my heart I wish that I could see
The times I loved that were our used to be
Too soon old memories we’ve kept must die
While most need learn how does one bid goodbye !
I never thought I’d rue the day
Once that I gave my heart away,
I stored my dreams upon the shelf
With no reserve about myself.
This life I planned of magic theme
Would ne’er become idyllic scheme
It didn’t take too long to see
True happiness is never free
No matter how we try and try
There’s no kind way to say goodbye !
What does one seek after the midnight hour
Neath the veil of darkness and loss of power
When the stilled air deserts its resting place
And we bid farewell to eternal grace
May the love of God now protect us all
From the final cut of the curtain call !
I hear the echoes through the trees
Life’s shadows move with each new breeze
Old voices carry loud and clear
And fall upon the listening ear.
The book has closed the story ends
And bids farewell to all our friends
To leave one nothing more to say
Ere we are forced to look away.
But let us go in peace and calm
Believing one must do no harm
Remembering those days of yore
And all of paradise before !
It’s been so very many years
Since the circus came to town
I guess there’ll be a lot of tears
Soon as it’s no longer round.
I worry bout the children’s joys
Watching silly circus clowns
What shall they do, those girls and boys
To help melt away their frowns ?
I wonder if we’ll ever see
A zoo on wheels once again
I can’t imagine it will be
A good plan for now or then.
So we’ll just have to make-believe
With lots of drums and loud noise
And set-up tents you can perceive
Full of fuzzy hairy toys
We could hang photos on the wall
Tell me if that sounds too queer
But this will never do at all
There are no animals here !
For all of the joy that the holidays bring
There is this bit reminding us of one thing
That through all the pleasures each season may bear
Sometimes there’s a reason that we daren’t share.
The heart’s just a muscle that rises and falls
Yet treasures the moment and often recalls
Those times that were real, much before used to be
When some had to leave for a new destiny
Wherever they’ve gone, we have bid them adieu
As we must carry on, the remaining few !
I had a call just yesterday
A friend told me you went away
I’m sorry that I was not there
I’m sure you knew how much I cared.
We have been friends for forty years
And shared our coffee, laughs and tears
I’ll miss you kid, I feel so bad
So much in common that we had.
We lived our lives and kept no score
And understood what was in store
What shall I do now that you’re gone
I’ll trust in God and carry on !
Too often in the twilight as day begins to fold
And all of life’s real stories prepare to be retold
There rises intermission when nighttime hushes all
As somewhere in the distance a vision is recalled.
Now we are brought again to the stories of the past
Where tales of our commission were never meant to last
And in these final moments as life does fade away
We’re left with the decision of what we have to say.
Farewell to all our colleagues, both family and friend
And if we’ve ever hurt you, please know it is the end
There will be no tomorrow this is a last goodbye
One final wish we ask for, remember do not cry !
Sometimes our dreams just go astray
Or fickle fate gets in the way
Sometimes we’re stopped cold in our track
Seems like there is no turning back.
Sometimes it feels as though we’re trapped
And all our hope is lost or strapped
Sometimes the love we live each day
Does fade and die, perhaps decay.
There is no promise we may keep
Once we have slipt into last sleep
The best that’s left for us to do,
A grateful smile and bid adieu !
There’s no morning sunshine or even setting sun
When our lives are over and all of this is done
And sadly through the mist as life has passed us by
There’s no time left to think or laugh or wave goodbye !
Her gentle smile, her charm and grace
Her tender ways, her sweet, sweet face
She’s left us with her last embrace
And gone to find God’s holy place.
What shall we do
When winter calls
And those we knew
Leave empty halls ?
Secure the door
We’ve wandered thru
They’ll tred no more
Within our view.
The place they’re bound
Is far away
It can’t be found
No, not today.
We’ll need a break
And patience there
It may just take
A special prayer.
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Claire V. Bogdanos 