If You Leave Poem by James Casey

If You Leave

If you leave me, it'll be forever
You can't just walk away
I will not let you return to me
And forgive you. come what may

If you leave me, my heart will not open
My mother lives, with guilt
I will not let my heart be broken
For a love that starts to wilt

My life will be in shambles, when you go
But this, you should surely know
You will be dead to me that day
If you decide to go astray

I've learned to live without love
God has seen to that
I will survive that heartache
And never take you back

Jim 1962