Did you Really need to do this

Did you Really need to do this

Did you really need to

leave without a word,I

vanish like mist

before the morning stirred?

Did you really need to

turn the page so fast,

tear out the chapter

where we swore we’d last?

Did you really need to

unravel the thread,

cut it so clean

as if we’d never bled?

Did you really need to

close every door,

lock them so tight

like we were never before?

Did you really need to

let silence grow,

water the distance

and watch it overflow?

Did you really need to

forget my name,

rewrite the story

and set it to flame?

Did you really need to

leave me undone,

a sentence half-written,

a race never run?

Did you really need to

steal back the stars,

the ones that we wished on,

the ones that were ours?

Did you really need to

make ghosts of us two,

a love left to wander,

did you really need to?

Yet here I stand,

beneath a sky still wide,

watching the sun

paint gold where you hide.

And maybe you needed

to go, to be free,

but did you ever wonder

did you really need to leave me?

Did You?