Farewell

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You took your leave 
so quietly,
without struggle,
without regret,
no parting words
accompanying your exit.

You did this unnumbered times
at airports;
without fuss,
without long adieus,
no backward glance,
you simply left.

You schooled us well
in life's small ruptures;
without anxiety,
without fine speech,
no concession to sadness
you'd intimate farewell.

You lived your life
present to the day
without speculation,
without blame,
no unbreathed 
murmurings of love.

So at this last,
most final parting
without angst,
without holding back,
no unfulfilled opportunity,
you move beyond our reach.

©Janet Henderson May 2018

Waft Her, Angels, Through the Skies from Handel's Jephthah (Mark Padre)