If We Have To Say Goodbye Poem by John I Nash

If we have to say goodbye, I want you to know that I did not want to die and leave you alone for this I will try to atone. I know not what lies ahead; I only know what I leave behind. The soft brush of your lips, I will feel no longer, your bright smile that lightened up my day for these many years that sun has gone away.

Your touch that healed my heart will no longer be there, I never took it for granted and many of my nightmares involved its loss and us being apart and now I must play that part.

Your positive spirit, has carried me through many dark nights, I wish I could have been more like you and made you happier. My worry was all about you and sorely you knew. I wanted to give you the world but could only give you my love. I never considered it enough for all you had done for me.

I never wanted to hurt you, but yet I knew on many occasions I had. When I saw you cry I felt like a wounded animal that had been stabbed.

Many trials and tribulations we have endured, but in the end they could not outweigh the happiness we shared.

The loneliness that I dread has come to claim me, but from afar I will look upon you and the darkness will go away, for this I pray.

When they finally put me in the ground walk away and do not turn around for there I will not be found.

Sadness I know you will feel but do not let this steal your spirit, for pain and distress I will no longer feel and do not want to pass it to you.

Go forward with the strength I have envied in you, make a new and better life, one you deserve. Do not be alone finding a love that will nurturer yours and have a good life.

Remind our Grandchildren about their grandfather that loved them so. Tell our children that I was proud of them and will always have them in my soul and that love will be eternal.

When all is done there will be a time for us again, for true love never dies it only grows until it fills the universe.

All these humble words I leave to you as my legacy of love, keep them close to your heart and truly we will have never parted.