I didn’t get to say goodbye

I didn’t get to see you and say goodbye.

They told me that I wouldn’t have wanted to see you

as you were so ill and in so much pain.

I didn’t get to see you and say goodbye.

They said you wouldn’t have said goodbye in any event.

They said that you were not going to die,

You were going to go home.

You would die as you wished

at home

in your bed, with your family

your dog, your cats.

Death didn’t give a shit what you wanted.

Death came quickly.

We all wish that death,

when it comes

as it must,

comes quickly,

still

I didn’t get to say goodbye.