Wondering of Goodbye

Why
Does he never allow me
The hug
And goodbye?

Today in one fell swoop
I lost two friends
And an entire world
Without a chance to say goodbye

My angel has graduated
And is on her way to school
My Autumn Hair is married
Leaving me with broken dreams

And no goodbyes,
Left hanging
With no comfort
Or closure

It does not sting
Rather echoes in the hollow emptiness
And relieves my eyes of their tears
And the mournful echo of the cry bouncing inside

I cannot move on
With so many open wounds
And tied to events, times, lives
Past and disappearing

One cannot sever the umbilical cord
Before one is born anew
Yet sometimes it remains too long
And chokes him as he begins to crawl