Ghost Of No Goodbye's

Give me a goodbye,

Tell me why you have to go.

Please!

Tell me why I'm not worth a goodbye,

Tell me the f*****g truth!

Give me what I need to hear,

Give me a lie if you must.

I need something.

Don't run away

If you aren't being chased.

Stay

And give me what I once thought I deserved,

Treat me properly,

Because I don't like feeling worthless.

Lie to me

And tell me I mean something.

Please!

Give me a goodbye

And don't leave me wondering.

I don't like begging.

Reviews

[Fox]

I think you are one of the best poets on this site, this was really well written and I really related to it. I still wish I could have said goodbye to my mother before she was killed, and it still bothers me. Anyways, don't let anyone tell you that you can't right, because they're sorely mistaken

[Dave]

This is really bothersome to me. A relationship, especially one having involved two people in love deserves a satisfactory conclusion. Perhaps satisfactory is too much, but at the very least some kind of explanation. Any kind of goodbye is hurtful, but it is even more so without a reason given.

Take care - Dave

[jacob erin-cilberto]

even though i found it almost impossible to explain sometimes, i tried to put it into words...it is so hurtful to just leave without giving a reason.
everyone deserves at least the respect of a real goodbye...
i felt this one really hard.
j.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

This has a desperate, sad and angry tone to it as the protagonist belittles herself in the face of rejection. Told with pathos in a flowing piece.

[Einstein Noodle]

absolutely stunning in the honesty Lexi! and how you have pinned me to the wall ... immediately i remember that one that i ran from with no goodbye .. and it was i who was the cad ... i the empty one .. and she deserved waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better ... my consolation is that she didn't "get" me ;) the loss completely mine .. and tho this was many years ago .. i sit here and read your poem and think of her and how scared i feel at the thought we might "run into each other" some day ... its no way to treat anyone is it Lexi?
E.
ps. by the way ... i love reading your poetry ;)