Written by Arshia Kakkar (Medicine, Class of 2024)
I say goodbye to my dreams
Knowing that I will never see the sight
Of something so beautiful again
Your hands
Butter melting on a summer day
Burnt where it meets the pavement
But soft where it meets the sun
I say goodbye to the darkness
Comforting in all its arrays
Distant in all its shadows
Your eyes
The tenderness of a tiger
The fierceness of a fox
But nice enough to fall into
I say goodbye to
A blanket of calla lilies
A cold winter breeze
An embrace some love and others hate
Maybe it wasn’t the truth
But the semblance of
That made me
Forget
Rather than remember
I say goodbye