Letting Go

To hear your voice when you call my name

To fell your touch that eases my pain

Now your voice is a faded whisper

No other touch will be the same

The happiness has disappeared from my life

Like the sunshine on the day’s it rains

Now your presence is just a memory

That blemishes with time

For I am alone by myself

With no one to call mine

But Now that I am alone

I realized and came to see

I didn’t need you

You really needed me

I was the one to call you

I eased your pain

I was the sun that pushed away the clouds

On the day’s that it rained

It wasn’t your voice or touch

That eased my pain

It was your ears that listened

And knew from where I came

Because in one way or another

You felt the same

I thought I had problems

But came to see

Yours were worse

Then the ones that bothered me

You had bigger worries

And feared things I didn’t understand

Instead of my talking

I lend you a helping hand

I tried to make you happy

I told you to let things be

I stood by your side

When you were alone

Because all you had was me

But you were blinded by your problems

And was unable to see

You made the wrong decisions

And lived your life unhappily

Every decision you made affected me

Even though you were blind

I could still see

I saw in the future

There was no you but me

I saw where you were headed

And that was a place

I didn’t want to be

I wound no longer hear your voice

I would only hear my crying

As I came to realize

You were slowly dying

You were killing yourself slowly

By the decisions you make

I knew I had to let go

Before it was to late

As I let you go

You were the one crying

Because if I would have stayed with you

To myself I would have be lying

To tell myself everything will be ok

Not to worry every will go away

I know you don’t understand me

But put yourself in my shoes

Feel what I felt

And you would have done

The same thing too

When I let you go

I eased my pain and crying

It is easier to let go

Then to know

Someone you love

Will end up dying

Author's Notes/Comments: 

I wrote this poem in 1997. It was inspired by my first boyfriend.

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