Goodbye

And so I've said too much
 And not enough
 And so the play is finally at an end
 You never had the care
 To call my bluff
 And so I must be pleased
 To be your friend
 But what then was the purpose of this game?
 I never really had a chance to win
 It's true
 I rather like who I became
 But what am I to do with who I've been?
 For I may wish to meet myself someday
 Among the ashes of a fire long dead
 To see my shadow there and hear it say
 That it was happy with the life it lead
 What emptiness awaits me?
 This I fear
 Far more than any peril I might face
 My purpose in this world became less clear
 When you were taken from your cherished place
 Within my wishing heart
 And went your way
 So willingly it almost makes me ill
 To think it never crossed your mind to stay
 Pushes the dagger deep
 Completes the kill
 And yet how much of this was done by me?
 Had I the courage would you still have flown?
 How sad to think this was not destiny
 But my mistake
 Yet how could I have known?
 Now here is my dilemma
 As it seems
 Do I accept the score that fate has set
 And calmly watch the passing of my dreams
 Or do I dare to place
 Another bet
 That where the curtain falls
 Another rises
 If I am wrong then strike me for my sins
 But I believe our acts and thin disguises
 Were but a prologue to what now begins