One Million Goodbyes

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-For all of us who will never understand "goodbye"s real meaning...-

One Million Goodbyes

My one-million goodbyes to you just didn't feel complete,

As if there were something I was forgetting.

It seemed like nothing was wrong.

It seemed like it wasn't that long ago.

I know that it can be hard to say,

All those things I had to leave that one day.

I didn't know you well enough,

But I heard it through the grapevine,

Everything I heard -it seemed like another life.

It wasn't the you I knew,

But another who existed too.

It's hard to say if I could have discovered the other, who was you.

Maybe it wasn't our fault,

But another -

Who didn't know that I was wrong.

Perhaps we could've been better off,

If your weakness hadn't come along.

But you I can forgive.

Not, however, that which won't let us live.

So here I have written to you yet another goodbye,

but this I know would be our last tonight.

And possibly the rest of our short lived life.

Just know that for you the love I hold,

You who are so dearly beloved and bold.

I just hope that you will know,

For you I will bestow,

This sad and lonely feeling of sorrow.

Deep within my soul,

I feel it there.

It's the regret I hold, and not so fair.

I know that what gave you away,

It wasn't my fault -but age.

I still can't help but wonder,

Could I have written yet another?

Could I have written something better?

Something that really felt like the last of our goodbyes?

Well this I know to be true,

That this good bye isn't so good,

However it's my last to you. I love you.

-By Sarah R. Dyer

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