And as I love you every day,
Every day I let you go
Slowly, slowly, for you won't stay
Nothing does, and this I know.

I hold your hand, so small in mine
Always thinking of the coming days
When we fulfil the grand design
In which we both have parts to play

Will you be spending your years with me
Or leave me in a month or two
Either way, it's plain to see
You'll leave me never, until you do

For enough of life I've witnessed now
To know this to be pure and true
The best in life's but loaned to us
To be snatched away from me and you

So with every hello, I bid goodbye
In my heart, a most preventive stroke
And when you turn your back, I will sigh
Mended my heart before it even broke