My Opening Farewell

Baby stands before an open window

Looking so far away

He can almost feel the southern winds blow

Gently touching his restless day

He turns from his window to me

Sad smile, his apology

Sad eyes, reaching to the door

Daylight loses to another evening

And still, he spares me the words, goodbye

Sits alone beside me, fighting his feelings

Struggles to speak but in the end, he can only cry

Suddenly, it's so hard to find

The sound of the words to speak, his troubled mind

So I'm offering ease to him, as if to be kind

There's a train every day

Leaving either way

There's a world, you know?

There's a way to go

You'll soon be gone, it's just as well

This is my opening farewell

A child's drawings, left there on the table

And a woman's silk is lying on the floor

I would keep them here if I were able

To lock you safe behind this open door

Suddenly it's so clear to me

That I'd ask you to see what you may never see

Now my kind words find their way back to me

There's a train every day

Leaving either way

There's world they know

Got a way to go

I'll soon be gone, it's just as well

This is my opening farewell

This is my opening farewell