Why couldnt you just stay?

Guilt kicks in as I begin to write
Don't know of a better way to fight
My tears away
Why couldn't you just stay

All the memories I don't want to lose
Though the one thing I regret losing
Was you

Pen trembling, trying to keep the grip tight
Keep writing these words as I say
The same thing as yesterday
Why couldn't you just stay

You were the one
That could turn my tears to roses
With your beauty your life exudes
Happiness with every life you have chosen
To touch

It never took much
For you to bring a smile to my face
Your soft felt touch
Brought my mind to a different place
Remembering how I would gaze
Into your eyes as we would lay
Oh how I miss those days
Why couldn't you just stay

And now that my regrets are long in the past
Let me say one more time before you cast
My life away

Why couldn't you just stay