Hello Again First Parts From Abydos Literacy Institute

I am working on this poem.  It might turn out to be my reflexive piece.  I am thinking that it will.  Change is hard and goodbye inevitable but there's solace in the next hello.

Hello

By Maureen Ucles

It’s not

Saying goodbye

For us

No, not in the least

It’s saying

Hello

It’s never goodbye

But hello

To the newness

To the past, present

What will be

Could be

Should be

Can’t you see?

Got me so intrigued

No, no, no

Not goodbye

But hello

Once more

It’s not the saying goodbye

But the hello

Hello again

Invites me

To go

Through that old rot iron door

So heavy, heavy, heavy

Into the unknown, unknown, unknown

Where

Possibilities abound

Where you are

Or might be found

Did I hear that hilarious and familiar sound?

Your sweet, sweet hello

Otra vez

It’s not the saying goodbye

It’s the perpetual possibility of hello

I must confess though

Sometimes don’t really know

If I am saying goodbye

Or smiling hello

One thing’s for certain

I guess

Deep down

I know

We can never end

In the goodbye

But look forward

Hello, Hello, Hello

Doors wide open

Fresh water in a bowl

Cool winds a blowing

Deep, deep inside our souls

Almost feels like heaven

Eternity awaits

Cause there’s no goodbye

For us

Sometimes goodbye

Won’t let me escape

It’s got a terrible hold on me

The reality’s so palpable

Melancholy seems to drape

Times pondered

Times spent

Will this be the end?

Of us

This time?

Then I ponder

Let my mind wonder

Want to consider

The whisper of

Hello, hello, hello

Cause when the goodbye comes

I just run and flee

Soak in

Remembrances past

And say

Ya know

 there’s always tomorrow

Another chance at

hello, hello, hello

Wrapped in sweet butter frosting

Breathtakingly Beautiful Texas Bluebonnets sprinkling the winding country roads

Belly cracking laughter

Lungs full of crazy, crazy, crazy

Giggles fill my being

Hey!

What?

Don’t have a comeback

 for that!

You get me every single, solitary time

Nah! You just plain get me!

Just wait!

Sometime soon

Next hello

Our lives seem

Full of goodbyes

I am conflicted

Juxtaposed

Never quite closed

A glimmer, glimmer of hope

Wrapped in

Hello, Hello, Hello

Many, many, sunrises

Hello

Sunsets, rainy days

Hello

After the storm

Hello

Just an inviting, simple

Hello

No more goodbyes

Not anymore

Hello

 A straight up

Glistening, gregarious, genuine

Hello!