I Tried

saying goodbye this time,
feels like it shouldn’t be,
but I know you need to let go,
we’ve held on for so long,
taking it day by day,
but look what we’ve left show,

I’ll miss every yesterday,
and I’ll miss tomorrow too,
knowing that you won’t be there,
yet somehow I’ll feel you,
in voices and rising air,
and it will be all I can bear,

to just pass you by again,
knowing that things have changed,
the world spins to a new beat,
I’ll try to remember why,
things had to be this way,
and maybe one day you’ll see,

that you were the reason,
hope never left my eyes,
and I thought it never could,
but through gray and stormy skies,
I never loved you less,
I held on just to see if you would,

but now I must say goodbye,
it’ll never come easily,
please go with a loss for words,
because words used to mean so much,
but now they are empty,
those last few to go unheard,

and if you should come back again,
remember I’m waiting here,
lingering hope still alive,
it’s all I can hold onto,
enough to keep loving you,
enough to say that I tried.