In your first absence, then I knew

Of how you will return again

Your raining knocks upon my door

So different from my hundred guests

I learned to trust, to love, to sing

As when with you, I felt eternal

Initial exits held no pain

For I believed our bond was stronger

And yet, as each your passings went,

I felt less surer than before;

For I became your urgent shelter

Instead a stable, welcome home

I reason you too know my feeling-

The way I sacrifice each breath

As you come forth when suffocating

Departing when installed with air

Why can’t you stay a constant, dear?

Why must you always wait or flee?

What have I done to wrong you so?

To fly so aimlessly away?

In truthened word, I care for you

And wish you endless, happy skies

Yet I can’t help but grasp my heart

And yearn to stay another awhile

And so, my dove, if you must leave,

Please do so fearlessly and bright

Abandon me with warmed adieus 

Go forth without me in your life