I'll say

I guess this is goodbye

it snuck up on us so fast.

I'll see you sometime later,

maybe, perhaps.

But even if this is for life,

this parting of ways

and saying goodbyes,

I hope you know

I will grieve you

the day I hear of your demise.

I will cry, or at the least feel sad,

burdened for several days.

This was too soon,

I'll say. It wasn't meant to be this way

I'll say. I haven't seen you in years,

I'll say, but I still will miss you

more now that I know you are no longer here

on this earth with me.

You are gone, and I will remain

and even if we meet again some day

in some place far different from this place,

I will still mourn your passing now.

For you touched my life

in tiny, miniscule ways

I never was aware of

until you were gone.

RIP Dr. Bowman