Goodbye

I half expected you to stick to the paradigm

Like you did every time you said goodbye.

You made an unsaid promise to return

Every time you said those words.

But the last time you said them,

You said them with such pain.

You said I would only gain

From you leaving.

You said you were just pulling me down with you.

And inside I secretly wanted you to say those words,

I shake whenever I remember those thoughts.

But the truth is,

You changed.

Everything around you was darker now,

As if you never knew happiness.

You said you'd hit rock bottom,

And that you just kept sinking.

I know that feeling.

I guess what we had wasn't a cycle.

It was no circle;

It had an end.

It was just a made up shape

With new corners added

Every time we tried to bring back

The dead.