moving on

Saying goodbye,

so many ways to get 'er done.

So many types, too.

Isn't every one sacred?

Often, I lack tact.

Is it better to Irish goodbye?

My ancestors came from that island, from the famine.

I'm trying to evolve,

to be kinder.

What a privilege to hem and haw.

I wonder what it was like to be Patrick and Martin Gallagher,

illiterate, hungry brothers.

Did they ruminate over goodbyes,

unforgiven mistakes,

what if I stayed,

on their ship west?