A Poem — Hauntingly echoing in your heart,
Every lobe of your being longed to part.
Lingering sorrow seeps deep into your soul,
Life is a river that endlessly flows.
Long-held secrets that you can no longer keep,
Is goodbye the only answer left for you to reap?
Once-bright words spoken, now forgotten and bleak,
Echoes of love and laughter fade from the peak.
Outwardly you may seem calm and composed,
Yet inside your mind is eternally disposed.
Grief from goodbye continues to replay;
Words forever lodged in memories array.
Yielding to sadness as time marches on,
Orphaned stories are just longing for a song.
Withdrawing into yourself ever more closed off and alone;
Overtaken by the impossibility of a happy home.