When I leave you postcode and your commuting station, <br />When I left undone all the things we planned to do <br />You may feel you have been left by association <br />But there is leaving and leaving you. <br /> <br />When I leave your town and the club that you belong to, <br />When I leave without much warning or much regret, <br />Remember, there's doing wrong and there's doing wrong to <br />You, which I'll never do and I haven't yet, <br /> <br />And when I have gone, remember that in weighing <br />Everything up, from love to a cheaper rent, <br />You were all the reasons I thought of staying, <br />And none of the reasons why I went <br /> <br />And although I leave your sight and I leave your setting, <br />And our separation is soon to be a fact, <br />Though you stand beside what I'm leaving and forgetting, <br />I'm not leaving you, not if motive makes the act.<br /><br />Sophie Hannah<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/leaving-and-leaving-you/
