{"sf1_id":925698,"sf2_id":"AnKkApon","title":"Good-by...","author":"Jiblits","words":426,"posted_at":"2015-10-24T01:00:00.000Z","tags":["Poem","Poetry","slice of life"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/925698-good-by","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/AnKkApon","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/9e/0f/9e0fd046-ad50-4c43-a872-c3c908880364","description":"","content":"Good-by...\n\n  \n\nThe night still young, the air cool to the touch\nI ache for the hand of another so very much\n\nThe one by my side is there by time alone\n\nWe've drifted too far from one-another, are love is bare to the bone\n\n  \n\nTimes surely made a fool of what we called forever\n\nTo have seen this ending of us coming, just a week ago, I'd of said never\n\n  \n\nShe still smiles the same, \u0026 hugs with what seems good intent\n\nBut her eyes show cloudy storms of building resentment\n\n  \n\nSeems we both had sights on another, but neither could say fair well\n\nNow, we quietly yell in our shared self-made hell\n\n  \n\nThe bells chime only for time\n\n  \n\nNo memories cared to share\u0026nbsp;\n\nOur love blossomed, dwindled, \u0026 now we stand in a garden so bare\n\n  \n\nWho'd a guessed, the words were all empty, every one so hollow\n\nWe're both at the breaking point, lips at the ready, to lash out, neither one first willing to swallow\n\n  \n\nWho's gonna stand.... will words be said\n\nOr will walking away be enough to let our lifeless love lay dead\n\n  \n\nI don't know, at this point, I think I don't care\n\nAll I know is, the breeze has yet to change my blank stare\n\n  \n\nFrom a piece of peace, the answers clear\n\nAll I have to do, is move past a few possibilities of fear\n\n  \n\nAs I started to say, she simply stood\n\n\"Everything hasn't been okay, we're not good\"\n\n\"I think I should go, be on my own...\"\n\n\"We've had our time, \u0026 I feel there's nothing else to be shown...\"\n\n\"Thanks for the memories, but I'm not strong enough to stay...\n\n\"I'm feeling the breeze will stop soon, \u0026 I'll be too calm to get carried away...\"\n\n  \n\nShe beat me, the words I would of said a second more...\n\nSo now, I must smile \u0026 say goodbye to the one I did adore...\n\n  \n\nTo my mirror, now back turning\n\nThe fire we shared in love finally stopped burning\n\n  \n\nThe shadows grow outward over the hill\n\nToo much time passed with both of us standing still\n\nUp I go, back to the rubble we once shared\n\nWith the good times, I'll forget the day she finally dared\n\n  \n\nTo walk away from what was, be it uneasy in the end\n\nI'll always have a hand out for a not so close friend...\n\n......if she ever wanted...\n\n  \n\n  \n\n---Thanks for reading---\n\n\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;---Always---\n\n  \n\n  \n  \n\n"}