I'm sorry I let go.
I know I promised, its just
We were the wild children,
Never where the adults needed us to be,
For the world was our playground.
We were one,
Joint at the hip.
I thought that we would never get lost as long as we stayed together.
But as the illusion of childhood dissolved, so did you.
You used to look up to face the adventures of the day,
But eventually your head grew heavy with the foreign disease
And you could only stare down at your shoes,
And then you couldn't even lift it off your pillow.
I didn't understand why you no longer wanted to explore.
You told me you were tired.
But how, if you were always in bed?
I was told that you were sick.
But I thought fevers and colds left with rest and time?
I waited for you,
Sat at your bedside,
Missed out on my own adventures with the hope of more with you once you got better.
But you never got better.
I know that I told you,
Promised that I would follow you to the ends of the Earth.
But as your heart hardened and your mind wandered,
I no longer could find you inside yourself,
And there was no one left to follow.
Thats why I let go.
You were sinking, drowning,
And I couldn't too lose myself in your Mariana Trench.