Goodbye

It's hard enough to say farewell
There's no use saying more
Even if I broke the silence
You'd still head for the door

We both know what I want to say
I can see it in your eyes
You want to say it just as much
Instead we'll say goodbye

So this is goodbye
This was our final day
Even if I said I love you
You’d still just walk away

Everything else has all been said
There's nothing left to do
Even though you're the one for me
And I'm the one for you

You told me not to wait for you
I'm trying to move on
A day, a week, it all goes by
I wish you hadn't gone

But we had our goodbye
And we had our final day
Even if I'd said I loved you
You'd still have walked away

This poem was inspired by the storyline of two fictional characters, just for the record.

Salvation

So unexpected, snapping me back into place
When once I wandered, not quite finding my space
How did it come to this?

And yet here you are and I have to hold back
Struggling to cling onto the resolve that I lack
How did it come to this?

This blissful distraction without limitation
Drives me to indulge in the greatest temptation
I trust that you suffer an equal sense of frustration
Why does it feel as if I've found my salvation?

I find myself reining in the fiend within me
Burning from those urges I dread setting free
Why would I run away from this?

Bittersweet desire engulfs me in flame
I cry out at night, calling out your name
Why would I run away from this?

This blissful distraction without limitation
Drives me to indulge in the greatest temptation
I trust that you suffer an equal sense of frustration
Why does it feel as if I've found my salvation?