A Poem for Unpardonable Partings

This is one I hope people will dust off and read, at funerals, farewell parties, partings happy and sad.


A Poem for Unpardonable Partings

Times of change upend, 
  from pending partings to the who’s new here,
We let old friends make new amends,
   awaiting whom new friendship sends

Laughing and crying, the same,
  and different,
We simple and pink brained fools
  can only bear so much in a mind, so
Excess of emotion is discharged
  much as the cable from a lightening rod
Shares its’ stresses with the ground,
  lest swift overwhelming emo
Melt our wires, break us down

Emotion, discharged to the eyes,
  will wash away what we’ll not see,
Emotion, sent off bodily,
  will dance and store within the heart,
The friends with whom we have shared glee

  So, now,
We dry our tears with laughter,
  so much laughter for the years,
Which years we see now ending will
  swell us up again with tears,
Sent again to wash from sight
  this unpardonable parting, which we forgive,
Sending it again to heart with laughter,
  where it stores the love of all our years