More Than One Way To Say Goodbye

There’s more than one way to say goodbye

Be it breaking or healing

Either taking along a beating heart

Or leaving a shattered one behind

To nurse its wound

Stitch by stitch, patch by patch

Fixating on a shadow that refuses to follow

A smile that shivers with insecurities

And a love that will just not stay

There’s more than one way to say goodbye

Be it an empty bed in the morning

Either leaving behind that familiar scent

Or giving that one short moment of joy

Just to realize that

Misunderstanding, misinterpretation

Is all that you’ve been lead to believe

A heart that wants to keep believing

Slowly weakens and losing faith

There’s more than one way to say goodbye

There’s more than one way to leave and go

There’s more than one way to loosen your grip

But there’s also many many ways

To not break my heart.