Good-By / Poem Child

Poem, my hearts child I coaxed you from a warm bed Somewhere before the snow With sleepy eyes You didn't want to go You had to go Like a doll with too many clothes Oddly walking, I love you With too many words I let you go But only steps away As the last leaves departed leaving there insistence of disorder They must fall on the paths we make Even the birth I give you will not last But today is your day to play And through your loving hands Fling them up like rain, to fall About your laughter Part words, and your heart As I let you go The trees are naked with the truth they have stripped me bare Did I tell you that as you were leaving