Calpurnia Go

A goodbye

It's a nearly-existential crisis

Imagining when you are gone

Exploring in your dream-like frontiers

To infinity and beyond.

And I know these things are part of nature,

But in accepting them I'm kind of slow;

In end the end I'm happy for her,

But I'm sad to see Calpurnia go.

It's an investment, all the time and effort

Put into a friendship now so strong,

And despite the youth of our relation,

I feel I've known you for so long.

And I've seen the ends of Brutus and Cassius,

And what fates Portia and Titinius know,

But I struggle now in finding closure

In seeing Calpurnia go.

Forgive me for constantly saying

How I'm not prepared for things to change�"

I somehow forgot this day was coming

when we strut our hour upon the stage.

Life's a tale told by an idiot

According to MacBeth and Co.

But I'm facing the reality

That Calpurnia's about to go.

You are moving; the house is empty.

And aw gees, I'm flashing back,

To the days in which we sat in awe

At woodchippers and Malvo's attack.

But Rubber and Fargo are hidden,

luggage above and more below.

And from Texas away to Florida

Caesar watches as he sees Calpurnia go.

But he knows, somewhere inside him,

That things are as God did choose,

And along the way this bomb

had to burn its too-short fuse.

So I explode now with emotion,

As painful as the dark,

But know I'm always right behind you

As on this journey you embark.

Give me time and grant me patience

And I pray to God you still say hello,

So says Caesar to Calpurnia,

Go, Calpurnia, go.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

They have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts.

Author's Note

Calphurnia = Calpurnia for Caesar fans, lol. I was Caesar in our OAP adaptation a few years ago and my friend played opposite, and now she's moving to Florida. There are a few inside joke-things in here, also.