Goodbye Again

Dedicated to Anissa Ann Biju

I stood for a moment 

Where we last said goodbye 

Where you’d come to pick up

The famously decadent

homemade cakes since 1993 

To give away to your colleagues 

before you left them too 

You’d come to pick up your order 

and to drop me off 

So I could carry on 

Without you this time 

With just a last hug to hold 

and I was moved to tears

and you said you’d wait for my postcards

Here I am again 

Here to pick up an order myself 

For my Godmother’s beloved 

A visit long due 

I am prepared to return home to them

after six long years 

that passed too soon 

Can I learn to celebrate our goodbye 

Like I would a long awaited homecoming? 

Because it meant only the best for you 

And somehow good for me too 

Knowing that I get to hold dear

Memories of you and me 

We’re little children again

The best of friends 

Reliving simpler days 

together