The question of "goodbyes"...

I wonder often if I'd known the "goodbye" was going to be so final, 

if I'd known then that reconnecting later on was unlikely...

would I have acted differently?

hugged a bit tighter?

said something more profound than "goodbye"?

Connections I thought would stand the test of time have broken off and fallen away, 

much like this piece of bluff on Lake Michigan's shoreline...

In its breaking off, was there sound and spray that someone noticed, 

or did it simply slip away?

If I'd known....

I wonder....