Heavenly Goodbye

Heavenly Goodbye - Aidan Inwood (Fiorello H LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, 12th Grade)

How do I say I miss you eloquently to suffice the deep sense of emptiness I'm feeling since your

Heavenly departure?

Would I trace the shape of your absence in the spaces where your kind smile and loving way used to

linger and let the echoes of you fill the hollowness of hours?

I don't yet know how to let go.

I continue to carry you in my heart, unyielding, counting the beating in my chest, heavy with every

beat; yearning for what once was.

This feeling of loss is pronounced and profound. I lingered at the edge of your former world, your

Home, my Father's childhood home.

The compass of my heart spins wildly. Its pointed needle whirled to places it can no longer call

home. For You were my North Star.

I untangle your name from my veins each evening, only to woven it into my being again at

daybreak.

I gathered the shattered pieces of myself, hoping one day with time, the calmness of healing comes.

I wish it was different and Today would be the day I feel the loss of you, less permanent.

In Memoriam of Mary BB Inwood, my grandmother