We Never Say Goodbye

We never say goodbye We never depart We remain in the heart Of the folks, and the brothers and sisters In the soul of the friends and the lovers And in the spirit of the parents and the elders We become birds or flowers We never say goodbye We never part ways We are the sunrays Which purify the air, the seas, the rivers The mountains, the meadows and the alleys We never say goodbye We live in the history We lodge in the memory We remain in the saliva Of the friends and the enemies We become an aura In the life of countless stories We are there and we're not there We challenge and we dare The imagination and arouse the emotions We never depart We live in the heart Of the stars and the constellations. Copyright © August 2018, Hébert Logerie, All rights reserved Hébert Logerie is the author of several collections of poems.