Give Me Your Goodbye

Your goodbye will be a blade I can plunge into my heart.
The pain will be more than I can stand.
But over years the blade will dull,
Until it can only give a familiar ache.

Give it to me.

Don't hold back
for fear of hurting me.
Don't hold back
because you're too timid.
Don't hold back
because you'd rather not bother.

Give it to me.

If not because you love me.
If not because you ever loved me.
If not because you even care.
Then only for this:
because I love you.