the first goodbye

The First Goodbye.
___________

I held forever
in my hands..
and threw it
away after a
month of
wishing
goodbye
didn't seem
more Eternal.

It is a
Self-
fulfilling
Prophecy to
be sure..
when the
Mind fixates
so deeply on
a False
Conclusion
that it becomes
real as a matter
of Unintended
Consequence..

but I
cannot
help it..

(stealing
Forever from
Them..
and replacing
Their Hope
in Eternity
with The
Reality of
My Faiths
Abandonment.)

It's Part
of Being
a Prophet
of Goodbye..

The Honest
Tyrant who
exposes
the defects
most suffer
but cannot
admit to.

The Animal
in Search of
a Soul.

(which parted
Long Before
the First Goodbye.)

j.stephen.h.