Strong

I am sitting here missing you
Even though you aren’t gone
I’m sitting here missing you
But I need to learn to carry on

You said you’d always be here for me
Until we do part
You said you’d always have my back for me
But now I know you didn’t say that with
Any heart

I guess I really was a nothing
In a busy life like yours
But I really thought I was important
I realize now that I was just being ignored.

You make me want to be so mad at you
For leaving me like this
This is when I really needed you
Not in all of those moments of bliss

But when I really think back
On all of the things you did
With you I have bloomed like a flower
I am no longer a kid

You taught me important lessons
Like no one else ever could
To be myself and love myself
Or else no one ever would

You helped me realize who I am
And who I want to become
You gave me the strength to be myself,
And to be changed by none

I know now that it’s ok
To think only about you
It’s ok to make yourself happy
And to make your dreams come true

I can still feel your arms around me
Wrapping me in that strong, sure embrace
And that that crazy, goofy smile
Plastered on your face

Or maybe that time at the piano
Gleaming smooth white and black
You pounding away at the ivory,
Our voices rising up together
Not holding back

At the time these things made me happy
They made me as free as a bird in spring
But now I look back and I think you had a different plan
These things all gave me wings.

So maybe you didn’t leave me
So maybe I was wrong
By letting me catch myself when I fall
Is the ultimate test of strong.