It would have been <br />easier <br />to stay silent, to let you <br />fade away with a whisper <br />and the sharp <br />shattering of my heart <br />breaking into a hundred thousand <br />flaws. <br />It would have been <br />simpler <br />to let goodbye <br />mean goodbye - <br />mean I'm done trying, <br />let all we had together <br />die. <br />It would have been <br />so much easier. <br />But how could you expect me <br />to let what I loved <br />more than I loved <br />anything <br />die in my hands? <br />Slip through my fingers <br />like sand? <br />How could you ask me <br />to let you go <br />as I shatter in the vibrations <br />of your memory, <br />of your choices, <br />your voice? <br />Now know <br />that I have given up. <br />I am gone, and you <br />will never have my heart again, <br />but it would have been <br />so much easier <br />if I had never cared <br />at all. <br />Trust came at too high of a price. <br />This is my <br />forever goodbye.<br /><br />Elizabeth Grace<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/goodbye-520/
