DON'T SAY GOODBYE

how do you keep someone close and won't leave you,

yet you know you can't keep them forever?

how do you let go of somone you care

when you know it's gonna hurt you,

of the distance, of no longer having things

the way it used to be?

you know it's selfish, to ask them

to stay,

and yet too painful to see them go.

you've had this scenarios over and over,

but why does it hurt everytime?

you'd never get used to that feeling

it eats you out, stinging pain unimaginable.

you keep rewinding those everydays you had together

you know it's never gonna be the same when they're

not around and feel them.

your eyes, too used of the sight of them, can't fight the tears from flowing.

when you know you can do something to stop

(the longing),

you're tied up somewhere...and back to square one.

saying goodbye

such bittersweet irony

you say farewell yet you know you

cannot let go.

you tell them to take care

yet you want to see them everyday

just to know they're fine.

you want them to be well as much as hoping they won't be gone for too long

...and hurry back to you.

please...

tell me you'll be fine, a thousand times.

tell me you long to come back to me as much as i do that you would

tell me we'll see other around again soon,

though we know it would be for a real while.

anything, anything at all...

just don't say goodbye.