A Good-Bye Said To Me Poem by The Poet Keri

By: Poet Keri
September 30,2008
Freeverse
Age 11

From a laughing, happy, little girl,
To a dead stone statue filled with tears, fear, and sadness.
As my parents part,
Simply saying a goodbye.
I wonder which one will it be this time...

Dad left last time, will the new Dad or Mom leave...
I turn away, fearing the next moments of my life.
Mom takes my shoulders and tells me it will be alright.
Does that mean the new Dad will leave?
I hope so as my heart tightly breathes with anxiousness.

But Mom steps away into her room, grabs her suitcase, and as she leaves the house, says a good-bye to me.
My eyes swell with tears as I try to hold them in, watching Mom wave farewell.
Now that Dad left before, and now Mom is leaving, I feel myself breaking apart into two pieces.
I cry myself to sleep every night since.
I have been seperated.

I have no one but an angel from heaven in the sky watching over me.
Since these two good-byes were said to me, my body has fallen apart in two pieces.
But after those two good-byes, the people who said them to me, they've taken each of my 2 parts.
At least now I can relieve my heart, knowing that my sould in two parts still belong to them.