Last Goodbye Poem by Adookorn Auaduma

seasons and time have quills of bird
from far off
soar over cerulean void
in thin,
in thick air

glide back to their kraal;
will return afresh from far corral

I fly
with broken pinion to quiescent hutch
will not return to this porch

even if all
my cravings are gathered in my quill
to dust the blues of this life

exception of this last goodbye
i say
to you dear Lucy

for all the years of slimy
dark thorny terrain we keel

even when
tempest rock my boat
you fence for my life

when summer sear grasses of the jungle;
the beast in me hunt for flesh

you
gathered lucullan hay for me;
i own nothing to even off your floral tlc
exception of this last goodbye
i say
to you dear Lucy!