Why Does It Have to Be Goodbye?

I never understood exactly why

things always have to end with goodbye.

Never has there been a word I hate so much.

Not even the word known as love.



Never has one word made me cry

like I do when I hear the word goodbye.

So final it is when it's sent

that all i can think about is the end...



Why does it always have to be goodbye

when it is a friend that leaves my life?

I hear this word all the time,

and each time it cuts like a knife.

Why does it have to be goodbye?



It only takes a second to say

that one word that parts the way

like no other after or before.

No other word can close the door.



Why does it always have to be goodbye

when it is a friend that leaves my life?

I hear this word all the time,

and each time it cuts like a knife.

Why does it have to be goodbye?



I have heard these words so much in my life

that I get tired of hearing them all the time,

but Lord you're always by my side.

I know that you will never say goodbye...


Author's Notes/Comments: 

written for a friend...

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itsmesowhatofit's picture

That is a great question! I have always asked this when someone has left my life unexpectedly, even ones that I have loved and I always pray about and I know the God has always answered my prayer(s) and given me the right decisions for my greater good. God is my father and my friend and reading this, I am humble to know I have others in the world that care about me, thank you!