Goodbye, My Old Friend

My friend, I can't explain this

My world has changed forever

And I'm scared I'll drag you down if I should fall

It's hard to see the glass as half-full

Instead of half-empty

When we know we both deserve to have it all

I won't subject you to this drama

As my life gets an overhaul

So goodbye, my old friend

I hope that if I see you again

We can just go on pretending that life is fair

I hope you love what you do

I hope that someone's tending to you

The way I was supposed to when I was there

Goodbye, my old friend

My friend, it's still hard to accept

That now the air between us

Is frozen; what a tangled web we weave

When once we were as sisters

Reduced to less than strangers

With a stalemate game face on, and I believe

That when the four winds reveal our true colors

We may not like what we perceive

So goodbye, my old friend

I hope that if I see you again

We can give each other space with cordial form

I could have been your ally still

I tried to help your joy be fulfilled

But now there's a chill that never can be warmed

Goodbye, my old friend

My friend, according to the book

This parting is temporary

Your essential being isn't really gone

Were you scared on your last journey?

Did you suffer long in darkness?

Will you greet me when it's my turn to pass on?

It's impossible not to be saddened

As you greet the eternal dawn

So goodbye, my old friend

I hope that if I see you again

You will recognize me past my physical array

They say we walk into the light

And all souls as one there unite

So I know it's just goodnight when I say,

"Goodbye, my old friend..."

Goodbye, my old friend

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Lyrics submitted by Beth Patterson.