It's Time for Me to Go : By Phoenix

By @PP

It's Time for Me to Go

Outside the sun is rising on a cold and windy day.

Beside me you're still sleeping -- I hope you stay that way.

There'll be hurt in your eyes when you finally come to know

That I am just a drifter, and It's time for me to go.

I get up, and dress quietly, sorting clothes from near the door

And with shoes in hand I tiptoe softly 'cross the floor.

You believed each line I used on you, 'though why I'll never know

If I stayed I'd only hurt you more, so It's time for me to go.

To stay would only hurt you more when I finally had to leave

You loved me oh so tenderly -- you don't need all that grief

I wish I'd never met you, and I didn't want to stay

I took all you offered me and I wish there was a way

That I could be the kind of man who's never let you go

But you don't need a drifter, and It's time for me to go.

By Phoenix

Poetry Pen