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Here I am before you leave.

Dont' shed a tear, please.

There were many things left unsaid

but I love you so much

enough to set you free sailing.

Hug me goodbye and follow your heart.

Go.  Give yourself wings to fly

as the precious memories start to flow now.

Watching I cry a little only with a smile.



When time went by sometimes did you know

I still thought about you?

I haven't forgotten, like promised.

Yet I wonder if you too thought about me

under this sky we share in common.

The dream has ended, memories in the closet,

but all my life I held you close.

You're somewhere out there since the sunrise parting,

my ephemeral dream turned into reality.

Author's Notes/Comments: 

Have you ever met people where you haven't said a proper goodbye to them?  Or wish you could say those important things you wanted to say (spoken from the heart) but never had the chance since they are away?  A few I have so this goes to them...  /  "Those thousand words have never been spoken...so far away I'm sending them to wherever you are...suspended on shiny wings...Those thousand words have never been spoken...they'll cradle you making all of your pain seem so far away...and hold you forever."  - "A Thousand Words" sung by Koda Kumi [International version]

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©15 May 2007 - 8:05am — bluewave
25 April 2009 - 4:34am — dancer
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I totally understand this poem. I had a close friend and then one day he just disappeared. But it took me a while before I realized he was gone. I never realized the last time I saw him would be the last time. Had I known, things would've been different. At the time, he was in the military stationed near Austin, Texas. Then one day I woke up and realized he was just gone. That was 7 years ago and his friendship still haunts me. I only have one photograph of us partying out one night and it hangs in my room as one of the fondest, happiest friends I've ever had.

15 May 2007 - 1:26pm — Ruth Lovejoy (not verified)
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excellent piece and yes, I have been in that position of not being able to say a proper good bye and it's very hard when you think about it.When my best pal Elaine from college was very sick before she died and I knew she was terminal,I was unable to get up to see her 300 miles away but I did go to her funeral and give the euglogy.Found your author comment very interesting too.