Anywhere but goodbye

You ask me why

My thumb draws circles

On the backs of your hands

Round and round they go

Like that childhood song

Round and round they go

I bite my lip to stop

The tears from coming

My heart feels so low

You talk like we’ll have forever

Drawing castles in the air

It’s never been anything but a dare

You say goodbye like it means

Temporary

Like you don’t realize how scary

It seems to be

That if I kiss you in parting today

A week from now

I’ll have to walk past you like

We never touched

And that is the reality I must bear

Those pictures I took in your room

The yellow walls

They now entomb

The one I would’ve died for

But you didn’t care

And yet again

That is the reality I must bear

I’d rather be anywhere else

Than where you say

Goodbye

~Rachel Alexandrina N.C.L.