Disclaimer: I don't own thi*BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH*yasha, and w*YEAH YEAH WE KNOW*but I do own this fic and hopefully you're not stupid enough to not know that.

[PP: Dunno. . . there are some people I know how are stupid enough the not know that… -sneaky look-]

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~*~Every Time You Say Goodbye~*~

It's been so long since I've seen myself

Since I've soothed my empty soul

But once you left and turned away

You've left me so alone

Why can't I even force a smile

Leave me here to die

Why does it always have to be like this

Whenever you say goodbye

Gazing at my reflection cupped in my hands

All I can see are flaws

But my dormant qualities, hidden inside

You seem to have found them all

All I ask is for your faith

My heart is steadily dying

I gave up on love, long ago

But with you, my soul is trying. . .

I'm not afraid of consequences

I will take another chance

I want someone who will accept all of me

Someone who will last

What's keeping me like this, what's holding me back?

As hard as it may seem

But when I close my eyes, it's she

Who always lingers in my dreams

She, she was the one I loved

The one I longed to hold

But since I met you, suddenly

I don't seem to know anymore

She inflicted this misery upon me

I'm lost in all my fears

But still her memories dance in my head

As loneliness continues to sear

A star…it's fallen from the sky

And I have given in

That every time I close my eyes

I see what could have been

Lost inside the nothingness

My life is all a lie

But yet I feel your arms around me

And it wills me to simply try

It lifts my spirit just to know you're there

When I'm all alone and blue

To know that this burden that burns my shoulders

That you are carrying it too

So take my hand and don't let go

I want to hold on just a little bit longer

For every moment I spend with you

This emotion seems to grow stronger

Maybe I'm just afraid to be hurt

And again shatter myself

For I had pained her once before

I don't want that for anyone else

But why can't you see that I regret

Every little harsh mistake

That when those vile words leave my lips

You leave my heart to break

And every time a tear streams down

From your lonely eyes

I realize how I hurt you

How it upsets me when you cry

And as the reflection slips from my hands

I suffer to think that I

Have hurt you so in such a way

That you have said goodbye

Look at me; I have no wings

There's nothing for me to fly

And these ashes that are left from those fires that haunt me

I see no paradise

Catch me as I fall into nothingness

Every night I pray

That one day I can share with you

And one day you will stay

Now all I'm doing is wait your return

So we can start over again

That we can turn to a vacant page

And begin together then

Maybe we could go just a little bit farther

Down the broken path

To reach the promises of tomorrow

Never looking back…

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Wasn't I great, folks? Now let's all give a BIG hand…*clap clap clap* Okay, now R&R! C'mon children, chop, chop! ^_~

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Tyba

[PP: -sticks head in once more-   o.o hi! Damn you and your talent tyba! -shakes fist- I only come up with good poems once in awhile, I hafta reuse lines. . . @_@]