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Summary: Padmé's turn to say goodbye to Anakin, it is. Chapter 4 in series, yes?
A/N: Realize, I did, that write my name in Chapter 3, I did not. No matter. Write it in this chapter, I will.
Goodbye To You ~ Padmé to Anakin
Anakin,
As I write my goodbye to you,
As I wonder what else there is for me to do,
I wonder as well why I still cry
When I shouldn't be anymore, no, not I.
I hear of the things you've done,
And it's hard for me to believe that this is the same one,
The same little boy who called me an "angel",
The same loving man who I found very special.
Your eyes used to have an adventurous light,
But now all I see is an anger dark as night.
The smile on your face is no longer warm,
Instead it shows evil and harm.
It was painful when you said goodbye,
My heart was so heavy I thought I would die.
But did you know that I was saved
By the very same man you so willingly betrayed?
Did you know that he loves me?
And that he'd always hidden his feelings of jealousy?
He did not betray you out of his own free will;
He's loved me forever, and he loves me still.
Did you know you made us lose sleep,
And that we worry so much about you that we often weep?
I loved you with all of my heart.
How dare you go and tear it apart?
I don't know what they did to you,
But you are not the same man I thought I knew.
I don't think I know you anymore;
You're not the man you were before.
He said it's all over, he said you were dead.
You have no idea what that did to my head.
I have no more tears left to cry,
And so to him, and to you, I say goodbye.
Sooner or later, I know I'll forget you,
And all the horror I imagine you'll do
You'll forget me as well someday
I think it should be easier on both of us that way.
I owe you nothing, and you mean nothing to me.
I'm going to be all right, you will see.
You really are dead, he was right all this time,
I guess it's something I can no longer deny.
Goodbye to you, then, and to all I knew of you.
I see there's nothing else I can do.
You're lost to me now, and you'll be lost forever,
I can never have you back…never…ever…
Padmé
-written 07232002-
A/N: recognize the first line of the second to the last stanza? I wonder where it could have come from, wink wink.
