Telling a Friend Good-bye

How do you decide when to let someone go.
They are one of your best friends
So how do you let them know?
Do you just stop talking to them?
How can you
When they are like kin?
How do you tell a friend good-bye?
When you grew up together,
And through all the difficult times cried?
When will the pain go away?
How will we cope?
What would happen if friends we stayed?
What words will help us through?
I don’t want to tell her some things
But I have to be true.
How will we survive?
When we’ve been together for a long time,
In which we’ve helped each other strive.
I keep thinking how we would handle.
Soon it will just be I, and
It’s like she’ll be a burning candle.
Before we had some of the same thoughts
Now my brother is home.
So now it feel as though I am caught.
There are days I don’t know what to do.
I am clueless
And I’m waiting for some kind of cue.
I’ve always been there for encouragement and support,
Somebody she could talk to,
But now she has begun to build an invisible fort.
On some days I would wonder how to live my life
Because without her as my friend
I was completely full of strife.
I am telling a friend good-bye.
And I promise you
I will try not to cry!!!