What I Should Have Said




It'd been a while
since I'd heard that voice around.

And when it asked me what I thought,
I stood mute and answered not.

I look back now upon that time,
and know what I should have said.

"I think that eventually,
everyone will leave your side.
Eventually you'll be alone.

But sometimes people come back,
and when they do you find them changed.

And the frightening thing is,
when you really look they're still the same.

And it's you that's changed, not for the better."