Too Soon For You to Go

You were never supposed to go first

Especially not like that

You had always promised

You would let me know

When the memories would haunt

When they would take you back...there

I kept every promise

Kept every secret locked up tight

The only thing I couldn't do

Was love you the way you needed me to

I tried so hard to fill in those blanks

Watched you stumble

Watched you fall

A heart just too big for this world

Hindsight tells me it could have been different

Shows me there was a way

Not that it matters

You wouldn't wait

Now I know

You couldn't.

It's been so long

And I still don't know how to say goodbye

You took that away from me

Perhaps the evening will come

When I'll dream of you as you were before

As we were before

You decided it was time to go home. 

NH

2013