Endmost Greeting

Neither insulting nor ungracious,
It is a single word of truth.
Though its meaning is clear and pure,
My journey might be your only cure.

For those I have to leave behind,
Forever will be in my heart to find.
Forget me please my foolish kind,
Fortune may forgive me my selfish mind.

Normally accompanied by a last embrace,
A kiss, a laugh perhaps a smiling face.
A Tear and a whisper, feeling caught in a maze,
Standing on the threshold with dignity and grace.

A last greeting with all honesty and respect,
To tell the girl I love, I never met.
Yet she made me happy, makes me regret,
This very greeting an unspoken threat.

It was not my desire to cast upon you grief,
To ignore the treasure I was to receive.
For my teariness is there you must believe,
I am your misfortune I had to leave.

Once I am no more my image will fade away,
Once my image is gone, you will not get astray.
Perhaps there remains a fragment to find,
Yet I must believe in out of sight out of mind.

It was not my wish to say this, my love,
To greet you like this with a lonely dove.
Alas, I cannot escape this fate
To write you in tears the final words eight
My endmost greeting and my last goodbye
Farewell.