GONE

Why were the signs not clearer?

I didn’t see this come

Never thought I would find you here

Was I really so numb?

 

In all this time I’ve known you now

You didn’t tell me once just how

You struggled with your daily life

Pressure from work, your friends and wife

 

Why did you have to do this?

All alone in the dark

Left your children without a kiss

For them it is so hard 

 

Why could you just not talk to me?

We’ve known each other for so long

It seems like a surreality

That you ‘re forever gone

 

Never once have you reached out

Told anyone about the doubt

Of the value of yourself

Hid your anxieties on a shelf 

 

Why did you not once express

That you were in a lonely place

Without hope for your happiness

You just walked into the waves

 

Why could you just not talk to me?

We’ve known each other for so long

I have to live with the reality

That you ‘re forever, forever, forever

……gone