goodbye to SMJ

so this is goodbye
like a message in a bottle
departing 'cross the ocean
waving "so long"

you're off to distant places
where I may never see you again
but maybe years from now
you'll wash up on my shore
those memories to reread

for you are just some grains of sand
out of many people
sitting on this beach

so off you go
in your glass bottle
tainted with sunlight
from a world I can't enter
out of my eye
behind my earth
like our faded star
you go
you go
farewell
and goodbye.