Hello Goodbye
On the trail,
Why do we say hello
but never goodbye?
We ask how far, but never
How far have you come?
We say thank you, but never
why aren’t you faster?
We wear phrases as thin as the soles of our shoes,
Thank you, how was it, where are you from.
We likely won’t see them again,
So hello is the goodbye.
Inspired by events in the Wind River Range, Wyoming.
On the ancestral and traditional homelands of the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes.