I sit and ponder why it's so hard
for me to say goodbye,
after a painful visit through history,
memories flood back to show me why.
Words echo from a child's heart,
"please, why can't I say goodbye?"
And as that child grew,
her life consisted of this repeated phrase:
"please, why can't I just say goodbye?"
Throughout her life, that same child
was met with the answer no, so
she grew up never having the chance
to say goodbye to those she knew.
It began to break her spirit and her
soul shattered into pieces, as words
she never got to say weighed heavy on her heart.
And now she struggles with situations
where she has to say goodbye because
all of her life, it has been something she's been denied.
Tears fall down my face as I wish upon the stars
that I was able to say goodbye,
because every time I try, I fail,
and it is this inability that makes me cry.
