I hope it’s an adventure
for my future’s sake and his
and he’s off to find his family and his friends
and people he’s admired
I hope it’s an adventure
he’s ventured off to begin
and if it is, and there is awareness
across this difficult divide
I imagine he feels a friendly bump
and a kind of signal
along his once and future spine
when one of us says to ourselves
or to each other
“I can’t believe he’s gone.”
it’s certain there is evidence
of something more than here
and if there is and there is awareness
and I really hope there is
I’m sure he feels compassion
when we think of him and are sad
and he remembers how it was
but I hope it’s an adventure
beyond his wildest dream
and he’s tromping or flying down
some strange and wondrous way
before he returns again