Goodbye Cassidy

Love can be both sweet and tragic.

I gaze up at a face as soft and sweet as mine
Rays of sunlight through cascading hair
Begin to fade out with a promised goodbye

Hate the sin but love the sinner
Maybe it was just my time
A love like this, a crime to the world
But a love they cannot confine

He gave me three weeks
For a death that was impending
How can I tell the woman I love
That there will be no happy ending?

As I lay me down to sleep
I want nothing more than to cease her weep
And I sink in to the arms like mine

I take into my mind the scent of her skin
The feel of full, pink lips
And the same song she always sings

"If I never knew you
If I never felt this love
I would have no inkling of
How precious life can be."

On the last leg of the race
The doctor said my heart was giving up
I told him that I didn't mind
That I had finally had enough

My darling lie beside me
My will and the reason I breathe
And as I take my one last breath
I manage a, "Goodbye Cassidy."