This bond will not die

Our time together is ending.

You never know, our paths might cross again, which

would be a kind destiny.

But this might be it.

The time in our lives where our spirits have touched is ending.

We have come to know each other and to trust each other

in ways unguessed at the beginning--

a comfort past expressing.

Hand in hand with the sad parting

there is the swelling softness of the bright realization

of how we have grown together.

This bond will not die.

Our living experiences change us.

The solitary presence of us each now

is richer for the combined presence we have grown into.

On the open journey now we carry each other.


- Charles C Finn