How Do I Let You Go???

 

How do I let go of you, Sweet angel I've come to know?

Your brown eyes have captured me to the very depths of my soul.

 

We met just by happenstance and nothing's ever been the same

I live each day to see your smile and hear you say my name.

 

Talking hours end on end yet never touching at all,

How can I love someone like this and let myself just fall?

 

The time has passed so quickly and best friends we've become

But it runs deeper than I ever thought,you are my morning sun.

 

I've never known someone like you who can make my burdens small

to lift my spirits with your laugh, to catch me when I fall.

 

You have a life, it's somewhere else, a place I cannot be

I want you more than anything to be free to come to me.

 

But duty calls and you must answer, it breaks my heart into

I have to let you go, I know, there's nothing I can do.

 

My world will be so empty without your voice each day

I'm helpless and my hands are tied, I can't watch you walk away!

 

I sit here in the darkenss, thinking of your face

the gaping hole you've left will be no one else's place.

 

I can try to move on with my life, like I'm supposed to do

but I can't imagine anyone who can make me feel like you.

 

Your warmth and tender words are like blessings to my soul

without your love to guide me through, the world will be so cold.

 

I want you to be happy more than anything, you see

I know the cost, the sacrifice, even if it's not with me.

 

The emptiness surrounds me and I cry out in the night

the deamons they take hold of me and I do my best to fight.

 

But I feel them overtake me in the darkest of my hours

You are my strength, without you girl, this man has lost his power.

 

Tears are not a sign of weakness for I cannot hold them now

I have to let them flow, to rid my heart of pain somehow.

 

You will always be the most amazing person I know

So you tell me, sweetheart, HOW DO I LET YOU GO???

 

 

 

Author's Note

Written for a very dear brother of mine going through a dark hour.

Reviews

[Helen Woodward]

*sob* Gosh, how awful he must be feeling and you have been successfull in capturing his pain with these powerful words molded into rhyme verse, which is not easy when you are writing for someone else.
I'm so sorry that your friend is so saddened...
Helen :-)

[PasDeChat]

very powerful! Thank you for sharing!

[Orlando Murcia]

All I have to say is WoW!
This was very touching and
so sad I would hate to let my
baby go too

This was nicely penned

I loved it
Great job!

Orlando M

[closed account]

I agree written with grace, and feeling the sadness all through the poem. The heart never abandons love, ever. The friendship is the most important thing, to know that you have someone there who feels and cares deeply is the treasure. This was beautiful..

[DrewBerry]

Beautiful.. could have been a lover.. but love is undefinable and without boundries..

Lovely words poetuknowit.. thanks for sharing!!

[The Rock And Roll Cowbo..]

It's hard sometimes to let go of someone we love even if it is for the best... you rote this with truly sad but poetic grace... Wonderfully done.