Sestinas

Sestina #1

At Pine Point lies my family.

They have showered me with kindness and love,

Watched me grow and blossom,

And now they have picked me from the flowering bed and sent me off.

Ten years came and went in a blaze,

And now I will say goodbye.

At Pine Point lies my forever lingering goodbye,

Lies my forever lingering family,

Whom I will always love.

I hope that the blossoming

Will never be turned down or turned off;

That the nourishing will be forever blazing.

My tears will set my throat ablaze,

Making me unable to ever really speak the word "goodbye".

I will never say that word to my family.

There is too much love

In the relationship that is still blossoming

To ever be shut down and shut off.

My love for my Pine Point family will never be turned off.

My love will forever be blazing,

And it will never be told farewell or goodbye

Because you never say goodbye to your family.

There is too much love

In the the blossoming

Flower blossom

That will never be cut off

From the stem grown by the sun ablaze

That flower will not say goodbye

To this world until it is time to leave their blooming families,

And say farewell to the ones they love

Though, love

Last for an eternity and the blossom

Never dies or is cut off

From life too early and sent blazing

Into the sky without saying goodbye,

Leaving families

Without fair warning that what left them, was love

At Pine Point there is so much love that sets my heart ablaze

I will never cut off my blossom because that is what made the flower that I am today

Well now it is time for me to say goodbye, but I will always love my family

Sestina #2

To me, Pine Point is love.

There are no cliques; we are all friends.

Mr. Geise calls it a community, but the right word is family.

I can't believe it is my year to go.

I cannot believe that I have to leave,

And for the last time, say goodbye.

I am not looking forward to saying "goodbye".

The word seems so lifeless and lacking love.

Saying that word will hit me with the reality that I really have to leave,

Say goodbye, and see you soon to friends.

And then you know its time to go.

Its so much harder to say goodbye to friends when they are really family.

I have never really left my family.

I have said hello and goodbye

Many times, but I never really had to go

Anywhere completely without their love,

But because they are true friends

I know that their love will never leave.

I never thought the time would come when I had to leave.

I never thought that these people wouldn't be my family

Anymore, but the thing about friends

Is that you never really say goodbye

Only see you soon, love.

Your never really gone.

I know that it is my time to go,

To pack up my things and leave.

I will always remember and love

my friends at Pine Point that have become family,

But I know it is finally time for me to say goodbye.

But I will never forget my friends.

Even when I leave friends

I will never let Pine Point go.

Even after I say goodbye.

Even after I leave.

Because there I have a family

Whom I love.

And my friends know that after I leave

I will never be gone from their hearts because they are my second family.

Even when the word "goodbye" comes from my mouth, I will never stop loving.