Please Don’t Say Goodbye
Please don’t say goodbye
I can’t take it one more time
Just let me go
Say “I’ll see you later” and
Leave it at that.
Please don’t say goodbye
That’s all I’ve heard for days
From Each person that I love
These sad and tender moments
Hurt too much.
Please don’t say goodbye,
I’ve loved this place so much
And had so many special friends
That you’re part of my life forever.
How can it be that it’s so right
To go and yet so hard?
How long will it take to
Build the kind of life
I’ve loved here in a whole new place far away?
Let me drive away just like it’s any other day.
Spare me the beautiful speeches
And the loss of words.
I already know that you care –
My tears attest to that.
Just let me go,
And please, please, don’t say goodbye
Published by wendyckasten
As a retired teacher and professor of literacy, I now in my retirement spend time writing novels, poetry, creative nonfiction, radio essays, and picture books. My foremost audience is young readers ages 11-14. But I also write stuff for grown-ups.
After years of academic writing for textbooks, chapters, and refereed journals, AND years of being Associate Editor of The Reading and Writing Quarterly, sitting on various editorial advisory boards, reading and critiquing hundreds of article drafts, mentoring my own grad students and junior faculty - I decided there needs to be a place to go and learn. Learning what you need to know to succeed can pave the path for a very successful career. You'll find some on my website.
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