Goodbye in photographs

I said goodbye to you

Goodbye to each picture

Each moment from the story that we shared

Although we each wrote our own version

Goodbye to you on the beach of Rarotonga at sunset in your blue tee shirt

Goodbye to us standing underneath the lanterns in the square at Chiang Mai

On a beautiful day we climbed One Tree Hill in Auckland

And I remember thinking how beautiful you were as I snapped pictures

In Jordan we journeyed to some city at the top of a mountain to look west towards Jerusalem

(I think it started with a K) and we took pictures on a windy day

You had on your hoodie and I wore the pink sunglasses you got in Thailand

And how blessed I felt as I took a picture of you in Akka from up on the sea wall -- Goodbye

On the boulders at the beach in (Raglan?) you stopped following me as I jumped down lower

And again I found you in your striped hoodie with sunglasses on...

Together we posed at Moeraki Boulders out in the surf and that picture is gone

Like the photo of you singing with Hami and Saia -- I can tell that we are gonna be friends

Kneeling in front of a golden buddha in Chiang Mai

No more will our legs touch like they did

It took forever to burn all of these pictures

And I may have forgotten some because they seemed to never end

And the last picture was us coming out of the restaurant in our wedding clothes

Holding hands and looking young and joyful

Married but an hour or two

Goodbye to that as well