Falling Away
10/09/01

And so it’s over
He fell away
said the words
she never wanted him to say

But it hadn’t been enough
he’d set his heights high
and suddenly found
they were heights she couldn’t fly

Was he deceived?
or had he been blind
to some awful conclusion
she never would find?

But somehow he changed
couldn’t look her in the eyes
couldn't say the “I love you”s
with all the “goodbye”s

Her personal nightmare
Her one biggest fear
Was to lose him, her love
and not have him near

He meant the world
and still would, for always
she couldn’t move on
from the slow, painful daze

But he couldn’t explain
something didn’t feel right
something he never noticed
until after that night

Of anything gone wrong
this was the worst
he should have been her only
not just her first

And though at one time
he had shared her devotion
he was suddenly lacking
that once-strong emotion

and so he said to her
his last, final goodbyes
and tried to ignore
the tears in her eyes

he didn’t look back
for he couldn’t bear
to see the pain in her form
the silent death in her stare

with that, she was left
cold, empty, and alone
her world of troubles
now completely her own

and without him
She couldn’t go on
and she knew, soon
that she would be gone

he was her everything
her very faith in life
but he was no more
so she took to the knife

she winced at the sting
then the steady, sharp ache
but she’d made her decision
no room for mistake

Now if he were to turn
to come back to her side
he’d find her lying there
with still nothing to hide

And he would find
that he was too late
that she had surrended
to her sad twist of fate

Author's Note
All right, so it's a bit morbid... It started out halfway normal, just sort of touching on the idea of a "tragic" breakup, and evolved into something more obviously extreme.