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Saying Goodbye
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Saying Goodbye

Is it just a simple word,
Or is it so much more?
It’s a word that I have had to say
Too many times before

I’ve written of this word before
It’s often on my heart
Goodbye for some comes easy
But it tears my heart apart

Perhaps I see it differently
Than other people do
After all we are all different
With different points of view

For me it’s just the way it seems
So final when it’s said
So when it’s time for me to go
I’ll find another word instead

Someday in the future
Someone will find a granite stone
It will tell about a man who lived
Till the good Lord called him home

They will read the words upon the stone
And most will wonder why
“Jack Roberts left this world behind
Without as much as a goodbye”

Jack Roberts – April 28, 2003



No, I'm not going anywhere. : )



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 Reviews of "Saying Goodbye"
Reviewed by A PAX
Reviewed on April 29, 2003
oh Jack!!!
You are soooooo talented!

You give this such grace!!!

Reviewed by Connie Hinnen Cook (Reader)
Reviewed on April 29, 2003
I'm with Vic on this one.
Your title threw me...thought you were leaving AD. So relieved, Jack. Please don't ever go!

Reviewed on April 29, 2003
This was excellent...I loved your poem here, I agree with Ms. Taylor, should just leave on a boat ora train!

Reindeer

Reviewed by Christine Morell
Reviewed on April 29, 2003
A sensitive and thoughtful poem Jack and written beautifully.
Chrissie

Reviewed by Tinka Boukes
Reviewed on April 28, 2003

Reviewed by T. Emilie Dybevik (Reader)
Reviewed on April 28, 2003
I really enjoyed this piece. I never like to say goodbye. I just like to say "see ya later"....Great job in this! Teresa

Reviewed by Nicole Davis Vergara (Reader)
Reviewed on April 28, 2003
Excellant Work Jack...BRAVO!!!!!!!!!

Reviewed by Digital Fairy
Reviewed on April 28, 2003
Yeah I feel pretty much the same, I'd find another word...

Very well-written poem :)

--Karissa

Reviewed on April 28, 2003
outstanding job, jack! :) (((HUGS))) hope you aren't leaving ad; it wouldn't be the same without you! :(

Reviewed by *********** ********** (Reader)
Reviewed on April 28, 2003
Jack this is wonderful...there is no end to your poetic talent!! I don't like good bye much..I say....seya mate! :)

Ty, Dani

Reviewed by Victor Jensen
Reviewed on April 28, 2003
See you later is definately my favorite. Sometimes it may not happen in this life time but by faith it will happen.

Reviewed by Kate Clifford (Reader)
Reviewed on April 28, 2003
Thank you for the sharing of your thought of goodbye. I feel I know you better now. Great write.

Reviewed by Lisa Hilbers
Reviewed on April 28, 2003
Jack,,,this is really good! I started to write on this the other day,,but just couldn't get it to work,,I'm glad you done it for me. Yours is much better too! Lisa

Reviewed by Erica Ivory
Reviewed on April 28, 2003
Wow.. Well, I am guilty of the same thing.. Have never said Good bye.. Was afraid it meant forever and at times it does... Ahhh but in my lesson .. if I had to it again.. I would have said good bye.. and let that person say it to me.. Because now .. in the end.. one does not even have that. Great write.. Ouch.

Reviewed by Ron (sketchman) Axelson (Reader)
Reviewed on April 28, 2003
I agree with ~E~
Glad your not gone from AD

Reviewed by Bhuwan Thapaliya
Reviewed on April 28, 2003
Jack...superb write my friend...great thoughts here...BHUWAN

Reviewed by William Bonilla
Reviewed on April 28, 2003
Excellent wtite Jack
No good byes are ever the same

William

Reviewed by Heidi Klein (Reader)
Reviewed on April 28, 2003
Jack, this is beautiful ... so nicely said. Whatever situation brings the goodbye, it never is easy. You've done a wonderful job conveying this sentiment.

Reviewed by Bonnie Torrente
Reviewed on April 28, 2003
Good job Jack! I really enjoyed this one!
Bonnie

Reviewed by Linda Murray
Reviewed on April 27, 2003
Good-bye does sound so final doesn't it.(( so farewell, so long ,see ya later is more appropriate.)) Keep up the great poetry until your gone. :)

Reviewed by Elizabeth Taylor (Reader)
Reviewed on April 27, 2003
I think death is cruel. Somehow I feel God should have sent us home on a train or boat somehow. No dead bodies, just get on a train and you leave. Nicely done, Jack. Thoughtful.


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