Fare thee well

Fare thee well, I wish you well.
Fare thee well my honey.
Although you're gone, my love lives on,
I wish you well, my honey.

I won't be sad but I'll be glad
For what we've had my honey
Fare thee well, I wish you well.
Fare thee well my honey.

Though nights be long my love is strong
I wish you well my honey.
I don't know how the here and now
Became goodbye my honey.

Eternity's too much for me
But now you're free my honey
Fare thee well, I wish you well.
Fare thee well my honey.

Love's liberty must set us free
From memory my honey.
What's been has gone
And life goes on
An endless song my honey.

I pray that you are happy too
In pastures new my honey.
So fare thee well, I wish you well,
Fare thee well my honey.

So fare thee well, I wish you well.
Fare thee well my honey.
Your memory is like a tree
That shelters me my honey.

Its deepest roots and sweetest fruits
Are part of me my honey.
Each passing hour I pluck the flower,
So sweet, so sour my honey.
Fare thee well, I wish you well
Fare thee well my honey.

05/04/08

I composed the words of this song back in April,
before there was a Rosebud in my life.

I was saying goodbye to a lost love,
for whom I'd been grieving for the previous eight years.

Perhaps I was addressing it to the wrong person.

I didn't have a tune for it until May 24.