This is a song I wrote August 1, 2023 at Joyful Journeys Hot Spring in Colorado. A couple hours earlier, we had found out that Jenny’s Aunt Patsy had died. I was meditating about losing people I love. I was thinking of a memory of my father, in a hospital bed, saying he wasn’t afraid of dying, but he didn’t want to leave us behind. Saying goodbye is sad.

The Day You Said Goodbye by Willy Grigg

You held my hand, you sadly smiled
You turned your face to cry
You knew how much I loved you then
The day you said goodbye

You didn’t want to leave me
You didn’t want to go
You had to take a journey
Down a dark and lonely road

And maybe we will meet again
Beneath a different sky
You hold my hand like you did then
The day you said goodbye