By RainbowChaser
Date: 2002 Dec 15
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Our last goodbye

Our last goodbye
was my worst struggle
the most pain i've ever experienced
my rock bottom

how could you do that to me
i was so excited to see you
i had high hopes for our future
i knew that i could make you change your mind, if you only saw me

but when i arrived at your door
you looked past me, and put on your mask
you hid your feelings from me, if only for a bit
and turned your heart to stone

your heart communicated with mine
yet you failed to give in
instead you decided to let go
to move on, without giving me an adequate reason

you were so fake with me
you distanced yourself from me time after time
and treated me with cool affection
that i would never have expected from you

after all the love that we shared
for you to treat me with such distance
broke my heart in two
and shattered my world

but then your dam of emotions began to break
and you let go of your defenses
for three hours
your emotions flowed on me

I held you tight
and made a promise to never hurt you
yet you failed to believe
and lied about your emotions

it was just like old times
but you pulled away
you retreated to your fenced in heart
and refused to let the sun shine in

so you demanded that i go home
that i move on with my life
you broke your promise to me
you shattered my world

you will never know how much you hurt me that day
i had done so much for you
yet you refused to be what you promised me
with one day, you broke the beauty of a 10 month relationship

as i drove home, i thought i would drive off the end of the earth
or at least relatively close
because you told me, that you would love me forever
but you stopped loving me that day, so with forever gone..i didn't know what to do

my heart ached, swelled with your words, your actions, the way you looked at me
so detached from reality
so cold hearted and untrue
in less than a month, you took your heart from me, and had forgotten about the love we knew

your phone calls became so artificial
i now knew what it must have been like for those from your past
your coolness caught me off guard
and you will never know how you shattered my world

why didn't i see the person that you were
that you were a walking contradiction
afraid of the world, afraid of love
and the only way to conquer your fear was through one last goodbye

in our last goodbye, you forgot the connection we shared
how our beginning was so beautiful
how much we meant to each other
or was i the only one who thought that

i used to believe that you didn't love me as much as i thought
but gaining a new perspective
i see that you felt that you had to save me from the demons that have haunted you
this world is far from ideal, and you've experienced its cruelty firsthand

Although, i believed that i could conquer the world
you didn't give me the chance
you cynically, took you and our world away from me
and left me to cry, wishing that i would die, because i thought you didn't love me anymore

but instead, you loved me more than i loved you
you were unselfish enough to let go of something that made you happy, that made your life less painful
you let me go, so that i would live a better life without you, then i ever could have with you
because of the cruelty of the world

But i would have sacrificed for you
I didn't want us to end this way
I wanted us to have the fairy tale ending we planned
the one that i naively believed

if we lived in another time, our differences wouldn't matter
i would have nothing to fear
and you would have nothing to protect me from
but our last goodbye happened only out of love, a love that had to end for reasons I didn't understand

A love that is impossible to describe, define, or ever have again
I will go on with my life
knowing that you are bearing the majority of this burden
because you will always reminisce about what would have happened if you wouldn've have sacrificed our love

would we have had a fairy tale wedding
would our marriage have been as picture perfect as you used to describe to me
or would society have drug us down
and left us unhappy and resentful of our idealism for each other