I Say Bye Poem by Satyapriya Gupta

Tonight will be the night,
For the night will be mine.
Tonight my lover I shall not call you,
For the heart of mine does not want you.

I must not think of or about you,
But the heart in here shall always carry a portrait of you,
A portrait of your heart that is young and juvenile,
A picture of you that is full of love and life.

I’ll move on in life like the others,
Have a career which will be full of wonders,
I’ll leave this prosaic love-life of ours,
For each other’s soul never belonged to us.

Goodbye I say, and I say it with delight,
Take out my wings and have my plight.
Neither was I suffocated,
Nor was I plagued.
You did not force
Or
Even make me your own.
We had our own lives and we had it differently,
I did never have a say and it almost killed me.

How do I still go on? Tell me my love,
You are not even saying one single word.
A word of love I am so craving to hear,
You only talk about having me as regret.

I was a pain for all you’ve got to say,
Tell me my darling for why I shall remain.
Be with you, I’ll mend my ways.
But do you want me for all glorious days?

No, you keep saying and still don’t want me,
When I walk out the door then why do you stop me?
Let me go. Let me go my sweet darling,
I cannot see you all confused and crying.

My life with you was no less that a paradise,
I have no hard feeling which is a surprise.
I’ll love you. I’ll always love you for the rest of my life,
I’ll miss you. I’ll still seek you till the day I die.

Goodbye my lover. Goodbye my companion.
Just call my name and I’ll run to you like a stallion.
I am a free bird but I hate this life.
Please be my master and lock me in a cage tight.

Being with you is all that I need,
But how can I stay when you’ve turned me on my heel?
So I say again goodbye to you,
For the rest of my days I shall miss you.