It Hurts to Say Goodbye

In Memory of Ramon Rivera

Sometimes you pour your heart out
You dare to
let love in
You let yourself believe in,
what could have, should have
been.
You give a hug, a gentle kiss
And share a song or two
You share
the Lord and pray a prayer
And do everything you can do
There's laughter
and there's good times
Making memories in your mind
And then one day, the
music stops
And you've been left behind
To ponder what you could have
done
To change that final song
And revisit all the memories
And find
the notes where it went wrong
How could it end so out of tune
You can only
wonder, why?
The melody broke inside your heart
How it hurts to say
goodbye
You have to believe in Heaven
That still the music plays
That
Jesus wipes away the tears
And you can hardly count the days,
Until you
get to sing again,
With your son that had to die
You know that God is
holding him
But it still hurts to say goodbye.
- Susan Jarvis