“Good-bye My Love: Con Tu Adios” by Jöseph Lee Foster-Shumpert-Lear, 1995
Published 10 April 2004 :: Poetry
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He stands in the hall and watches as she goes by
He thinks of the days when they held hands, kissed, and talked about her children
What a fool he was to mess up the love of a lifetime
A love that he wanted nothing more than to preserve
A letter was written without his knowledge,
And now all the peace that he had tried for so long to find,
Runs through his veins
And out of the cuts on his arm onto the floor
They had agreed on forever,
But now that forever is gone
The hallways and stairwells are empty now
Even though there are hundreds of people all around
It is she who is missing from the hallways, the stairwells, and from his life
He misses her touch and voice,
But most of all, he misses being with her all those brief moments during the day
He wishes that things were different;
That he could change it in some way,
But now it is too late
As he loses consciousness,
She enters the room to find him sitting in his own blood on the floor
Crying, she tells him “Con tu adios
Te llevas
Mi corazon”
