I HAVE TO SAY GOODBYE
I have to say goodbye to you,
for you ask too much of me.
And I'll hurt ,too, in doing this,
but it is best, as you will see.
You try to complete yourself,
in what you think you see in me.
But the missing parts of yourself,
lie in you ,where they should be.
It's hard to be held responsible
for supplying your many needs.
I can't be lover and therapist,
God knows where that road leads.
That is why I fell short so often,
and I caused you to complain.
I fought so hard to hold onto me,
and not to somehow cause you pain.
I 've been down this road too many times,
of being someone else's half.
At last I'm back in one whole piece,
having learned how best to do the math.
You had told me often that together,
how well we made one, me and you.
But the math I've learned now tells me,
that one and one should add up to two.
I am a person now, you see,
who is but one, I am complete.
And someone who will walk with me,
must walk on her own two feet.
I may not find that someone else,
who will think the way that I do.
But I hope that you will understand,
just why I must say goodbye to you.
copyright 2000 by Roland Ricker
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