Our Lives Are Measured in Good-Byes

by

Brooks Carver

Open your paint box
Squeeze paint onto your pallet
Use the brightest primary colors

On a large brush loaded
With swirling brilliance
Just let it flow freely
Don’t stay in the lines

Only you will see the finished product
Only you will know when it is final
Only you understand when it is
Truly good-bye

But it is still there on your canvas
Living in that personal place
Where good-byes dwell

Now tuck your painting away
Into the loving scrapbook
Of private masterpieces

Carefully saved

 

 

 

 

Brooks Carver is a farmer, writer of historical fiction, poet and photographer. His family originally came from the Blue Ridge region of North Carolina. He has a Reconstruction-era novel set in eastern Tennessee, The Angels’ Share. He also has a published anthology of his work called Pilgrim Heart. His poetry and short stories have appeared in numerous magazines. His work may be seen at Prairie Sky Press.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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