Not One Tear

We never noticed you

Until the day you died

You shocked us then

But no-one cried

I remember how you

Just walked out one day

How you slammed the door

You couldn’t stay

An hour later

You had said goodbye

Though there was no one

Who would cry

Not one tear was shed for you

A single gasp, just one

Your empty chair the only sign

That you were gone

While I can’t understand

The pain you had to bear

I think I almost can

Because the guilt is always there