Only Goodbye

I have nothing more to say 
except goodbye— 

though even that 
is only a door 
pretending to be a word. 

Something has already crossed over. 
Something without a name 
has taken the shape of distance. 

I have nothing more to say. 

Only this small sound 
shimmering through eternity, 

goodbye— 

and somewhere beyond it, 

no word at all.