Don't Leave

from Something to Look Forward to... by Derek Brink

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Some people in your life are integral. Sometimes those people leave. It always sucks.

I’ve been left a lot. I’ve gotten to the point that I prefer a bad goodbye to a good one. Death before desertion, and all that. But I’d prefer not to be left at all.

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Something's wrong.
Something's gone.
Seems like everything important to me
was dust all along.
Something's changed.
Something's strange.
Something broke somewhere
and nothing will ever be the same.

I've been left to the death
so many times by now
it's hardly worth catching my breath.
First you're wrong then you're gone.
Should've seen it coming
before we even started getting along.

You weave your way in and back out again.
Without that thread the whole thing's incomplete.
Would it make a difference to hear me say it?
Then for the record, please, God, don't leave me.

It's the ghost
that scares me the most.
The thousands of dead days
that you won't be anywhere close.
Sticks and stones
and words have been thrown.
For me it's just one more small step
in the direction of dying alone.

Have I ever told you how much I love you?
I can't take that back.
Please, God, don't leave me.
I would bleed for you. I'm pleading to you.
Don't turn your back.
Please, God, don't leave me.
If you must escape me at least please hate me.
Don't make your peace.
Please, God, don't leave me.
Promise you'll hurt me before you desert me.
Don't turn your cheek.
Please, God, don't leave.

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from Something to Look Forward to..., released October 16, 2014

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