A silent goodbye, a memory

You were more than just a dream. 
You were a possibility.

With nothing to hold onto.
No one to tell goodbye.

All I’ll ever have are the feelings.
The gentle pulse of my own heart.
So rhythmic,
I could hear it in my bones.

I miss what was becoming.
I miss who I could have been.
I miss the tender ache of almost.

You never saw the world,
But you changed mine.

I won’t forget.
I can’t. 
How could I. 

You changed me forever
without a hello or goodbye.

This is my surrender,
my heartache, my cry—
this is my silent goodbye.