a long goodbye

i am in heaven but also in hell

don't know you at all yet i know you so well

we are together and yet i am quite alone

you only wake up to my voice on the phone

you say “oh my love i was thinking of you,

when are you coming are you missing me too”

is it wrong, is it cruel to reach across time

and remind you once more that your heart is mine

is using the magic of “remember when we ...”

a cruel waste of time which is damaging me

questions repeated, no knowledge retained

that magnificent memory now gradually drained

this awful progression eroding your mind

as the weeks pass us by you are harder to find

i know in my heart that i should stay away

but the light of your love so brightens my day

so i guess i'll keep calling till one day you don't know

the voice on the phone and who still loves you so

Copyright © 2017 by Eryll Oellermann