The pain will go away
One day maybe
You’ll look at me
And smile again.
Forget all the bad times
Remembering only the good.
You will find someone else
To love.
Thinking of me
Only in passing.
I never meant to hurt you.
I’d rather kill myself first.
Somehow things never worked
As I had planned.
Funny how nothing
Ever does.
Maybe it’s the way
Things are supposed to be.
I can’t imagine why or how.
But then
Maybe I know nothing at all
Except the pain
Both of us feel
Right now.

A. Beckman 2000