OUR LAST GOODBYE

Silent tears flow from my eyes
thinking back when it was time for us to fly
we knew the day would come, long before that
Our feelings for each other went flat,
dead on arrival.
The pain hurt in our hearts
but we both had to make a new start,
we couldn't keep going on like the walking dead,
the zombie apocalypse in our bed.
We had to break the ties
for it was time for our last goodbye.

What went wrong how did things change
was what the tape recorder kept playing in my head
and my nervous breakdown would have spread
so the stop button I had to find
and hit it one last time
or I would have gone insane and
had damage to my brain.
We changed over the years, this is true,  
and as time went on, we both were blue.
We got stuck in a rut and couldn't move forward
we went backwards in time, and our feelings were lowered.
The end was near but it was hard to let go
The darkness and drenching rains came,
the dam stopped the flooding flow,
devastation all around but nothing for shame
there was nobody really to blame
but ourselves.
There was beauty in the ashes
as a ray of light flashes
I saw the future offered a tiny bit of hope
separately for me and you, and knew we could cope but
we had to break the ties
for it was time for our last goodbye.

The end was there
but nothing to fear
it was becoming all too clear
we couldn't hold on to something that was gone
everything had all gone wrong,
or right depending on how you looked at things.
Fighting and arguing sewed the seed
then ignoring one another caused the soul to bleed.
We tried to make things work but to no avail
the relationship was meant to fail. 
If we stayed together things would have only gotten worse
we would have been going in reverse
and only trouble would have come from it.
The love we once had was not on the mends,
If we still hung out and talked it would not have payed dividends
so that was it, we had to break the ties
for it was time for our last goodbye.


This is about someone looking back on a failed relationship, and even though they tried to work on things some relationships aren't meant to be and it's time to move on.  When a relationship ends it's not the end of everything but a period of growth and rebirth  to a new way of being. Also in all things there is hope.  Even in a failed relationship there's hope for a better future.