Always

When you say goodbye, is it really the end?
Does time successfully divide you?
Until you forget the scent of their touch?

Will life forget its sacred oath?
And become the loser over death?

Will I ever learn to forget you?
Will I never get to see your smile?
Will I forget the sound of your voice?
Have I forgotten how to say I love you?

Can I never hold you close?
Do questions remain unanswered?
And do memories slowly seep away?
Until I find that most of all,
It is you I can barely remember?

Will the image of the car,
Be forever engraved in my mind,
When it wrapped itself around a tree,
Until it became nothing but twisted metal,
Lost in ash, soot,
And naked debris?

Can I ever forget,
The cruel and malicious words,
I used against you, because you hurt me?
I suppose my wit is like my sword.
Something harsh and sharp,
That will plague me until I die.

Will I always remember,
How you always smiled?
Or how every time you said you loved me.
And every time you would hold me,
I, in turn, would always smile?

Now each one of my smiles Is just a replica,
Nothing but a fake.
Even my laugh is shrill and hollow,
It’s enough to make me bleed.

Will I never forget how long I stood there?
Am I doomed to remember the bitterness of my tears?
As they left their salty tracks down my cheeks,
Payment for my sins.

Will I always be tortured,
With the thought of what if?
Would I have ever truly loved you?
Could we have really been?
You were my best friend,
My life; My world.
I have loved you until the end.

Can my questions ever be answered?
Or am I doomed to never know?
Maybe one day the answers will come,
Maybe one day we will once again meet,
Save me a place in heaven for when I go,
Watch over me the way you do,
And just remember Luke above all else;
I always loved you.
And always will.

Always.