I did not ask, I did not know.

I did not ask you to come

To disrupt your life

To leave your mother, your home, your world.

I left knowing I would only return to visit

Not to stay

To go and not return

To reach out as I could

A month, then three then five passed

You closed your home, left your job, your mother

To follow, to be together you gave up everything

Then we moved, and moved again and once again

But you stayed, you followed unquestioning

I left my job and still you stayed

But then it happened your career moved up and your time became shorter

Then shorter still until I would ask will you come

Are you coming, where are you

I fought those devils many nights which turned into years

Yet still no reprieve, no relief, no regret

And yet I stayed, waiting

Only emptiness

And then No More

To love and leave is no less painful than to love and stay

I will one day look back in the reflection and ask why

Why did I leave, why did I stay so long

Why could you not hear me, why did you not see

Time alone is a teacher, time being alone a more powerful teacher

And as I look to what may be the final chapter I recall those moments

There were times of joy, of happiness, of foolishness

Times of wild abandon with no boundaries

There were adventures, there was sorrow but we were us

At which page did the story line change

You became one and I was still a part of two

I did not know it was time to go until I walked away

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