Saying Goodbye...

"Love's a deep wound and what is a mother without a child and why can't I hold on to now forever and her here and me here and why does time snatch away a heart I don't think mine can beat without?...Why do we have to keep saying goodbye?"  
                                                            from One Thousand Gifts  by Ann Voskamp

Saying goodbye to little ones I've never held yet loved with everything I have; throwing rice and blowing kisses; standing alone in the dusk, shocked and speechless, as she drives away...leavetakings both fair and painful: I've never been good with goodbyes.