Teach me how to say "Goodbye"

To friends I talk to less

Because I have found new friends

More matching my interests

Teach me how to let it go

Like the leaves do their tree

Or the chicks tell the sparrow

"Goodbye, Mommy."

Teach me how to move on

From my old best friends

Instead of keeping them around

Until a hurtful end

How do I say "Goodbye"?

Or let my old best friends go?

Or know when it's best to just

move on, you know...

...how hard it is to say goodbye

that one poisonous word.

It sits on my tongue

for the most part unpreferred.

Teach me how to say "Goodbye"

And to let it go

To move on to new friends

Without getting so...

...upset that I left them

and betrayed their trust.

Or afraid that they will

now look at me in disgust.