“Can I ask you something?”
He said with furrowed brow.
“I’ll answer anything you ask if time will allow.”
“Why is life so fleeting and did we even have a chance?
Once we lose this moment our friendship cannot last.
I’m sucked into the riptide, were being pulled apart,
but I think I can live through it since I’ve broken my own heart.
And though it is in pieces, I know that it will mend.
But the only way to do it is to make sure this story ends.”
“Why do we have to end?
Can’t we just begin again?
If you don’t know which way the river will bend,
how can you determine that this is the when?”
“I’d rather it be over than fall into disrepair.
I’d rather burn out bright than wonder if you’re there.
I’d rather expect nothing than to see it fade away.
So the when is now since it would be a lie to stay.”
“Can I ask you something,” she said without defeat.
“If we say it’s over than isn’t it a cheat?
Maybe I will need you and you’ll need me as well.
Do we stop discussing and put ourselves through hell?
So what if I don’t see you, it’s being there that matters.
It’s this silence you’ll impose that will leave our love in tatters.”
“It’s a love I do not want if you’re not really there.
You’re a crutch I lean on when life’s too much to bear.
Maybe now without you I can truly stand alone.
Letting go of you will show that I have really grown.”
“I don’t know what to say to you except I disagree.
There’s ways of really growing besides letting go of me.
I do not see the problem that leads to this solution.
How does our separation bring about our dissolution?”
“I wish that I could tell you that all that I’ve confessed
was just a clever way for me to administer a test
to find out how you felt if I had to pull away.
Withholding my decision that I would always stay.
And even though I love you, I know it isn’t right
to wonder what to do with us every single night.
So this is my decision and I think I’ve answered why:
Since you mean too much to me I have to say goodbye.”
