Goodbye

GOODBYE

Goodbye neighbour You did no wrong, sang life’s song, got along Most people would say you were a good person You were a brother and a son but now you’re gone

Goodbye friend Never expecting the end, and to send you to mend In the hospital seemed the right thing You were a colleague a father but now you’re gone

Goodbye mother The children weep, their love so deep they cannot keep At bay the pain of loss and so many tears The sorrow that tomorrow and forever you are gone

Goodbye stranger And thousands too, who like you will never renew Their vows to be the best they can be For they too have been taken and are gone

Goodbye heroes There to save us, have us brave this wave This plague that invites us to meet our maker They gave their love and then their lives and now are gone

Goodbye normal For that is what we have not got a lot of Restrained, perhaps re-trained So many things we took for granted, for now, are gone

Goodbye Covid Ours not to reason why or who will die, to lie Beneath the feet of those who stumble on You brought us hell, but one day you too will be gone