I loved you hard, but you let me go

I clung on to you so tightly

Even as you said “goodbye”

You would not escape so lightly.

Hoping, praying you would come back!

Oh, why didn’t you want to stay?

The only thing that has healed the heart

Is time, fading memories away.

Now when I saw you

I did not linger,

No love was left–not even anger

I sometimes forget how easy it was

To say hello to a stranger.