Signe Robertson

One Last Goodbye

One Last Goodbye, poem by Signe Robertson, 2009




I just want to give you
One last goodbye
Soon, I will surely die
But not without this goodbye

If I end it all
Or die by mistake
Who will bid farewell
To all those I love?

I will
Right now
I cannot leave you without
This last goodbye

I put my finger in the snow
And wrote your name in cursive
The snow was cold, but looked much better
With your name written in it

When you were a stranger
You reached out for my hand
And ended up stealing my heart
Now it is yours, forever

You said "I want you to know me"
But now, somebody knows you more
My love, if I die, I will not leave without
This last goodbye

I got to be closer
Than anyone else
To the most beautiful girl
In the entire world

It was such a quick moment
And now already gone
Somebody won your heart
And I lost

The one you think about
As you fall asleep at night
Is someone else
Not me

Now all I can give you is
One last goodbye
Before I go
Before I die

I need you every second
Do you even need me every day?
What I promised meant nothing
Next to promises from someone else

I might be silly, you might be a stranger
But you reached out to me
Through the crowd
As if we were the only ones

My heart was already broken
By a man who was like a flame
Heating up a cold night
The only light in sight

Now you broke my heart
My lovely, beautiful girl
Like the colors in the sky at sunset
You are sweeter than a flame in the night

But I suppose this beauty
Is only here to taunt me
Show me what I cannot have
And break me down to pieces

It works, but remember
I love you either way
Every night and every day
I love you!

You were perfect for me
But someone else was perfect for you
When you had finally healed my heart
It died while in your hands

Like a baby bird
You tried to save
But failed
Or did you let it die?

Now all I can give you is
One last goodbye
Before I go
Before I die

Admiration, adoration
Affection, attraction
Desire, devotion
Passion

Take these words, my love
Turn them a billion times stronger
For all eternity
This is what I leave for you!

Yes, I leave you now, my dear
With the strongest of love and affection
As I go in the opposite direction
To the darkest pit of solitude and despair

Whenever I die and how
I will always love you
And will not leave you without
This last goodbye

Burn my body to ashes
Spread them out to sea
A Christian funeral
Is not for me

You showed up from nowhere and saved me
Then broke me and left me for dead
Soon, I will surely die
This is my last goodbye