The first breath you take is what your parents embrace most

From when you are born at age 21,

your parents pop champagne bottles

and say announcements to celebrate your birth and

memories of you taking your first steps and first words.

Your parents mutter words beneath their breath of sadness

as hot as steam but light like a feather trying not to break down after

Asking you—If you were to still visit them while you are gone.

If that one goodbye's the only goodbye they will get

As you ask yourself, you leave before saying goodbye

That one question is the one that’s never around today

But the one that’s most truly observed constantly.