<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460916" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Fare well - and yet goodbye to all farewells.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">All is in the mind and in the heart: <br>there are no empires and no entities, <br>nought can be owned and nought possessed, <br>in mind nor heart; our parents, partners, kith and kin<br>are but changing shadow puppets in<br>the self-constructed drama of our life -</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and this the humbling truth, which in our mind we know<br>yet in our heart, wish that it were not so; <br>loving the flight of free and graceful birds<br>yet wishing all within the golden net<br>of our own love - that love which can so quickly seem to go...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and so, since we can never own those things<br>which bring us all our joys and all our life<br>we can no more say hello nor goodbye<br>when all is all within, yet all without...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">this freedom should bring joy - were we so bold<br>that in ourselves, we knew it to be so; <br>so, meeting some new face, know it to be - ourself; <br>and saying goodbye - be it to dust and ashes said -<br>know, what we never owned, can never lose; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">for 'hello' was an ancient wish - 'be whole and well', <br>and 'goodbye' meant 'God be with ye' in a distant age; <br>'fare well' a blessing too, a wish beyond<br>our view of self, and loss - or death - or gain; <br>and thus beyond all pleasure lost, or pain; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">what cannot be acquired can not be lost; <br>'goodbye, my love' a frail, transparent ghost; <br>love weeps beside the grave's heart-rending sorrow, <br>yet lives to love, heart beat again, the morrow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460916" data-title="Fare well - and yet goodbye to all farewells. de Michael Shepherd" data-description="All is in the mind and in the heart: there are no empires and no entities, nought can be owned and nought possessed, in mind nor heart; our parents, partners, kith and kin are but changing shadow puppets in the self-constructed drama of our lif..."></div> </div> </div>

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