If I Kissed This World Goodbye

If I love you were the last words that would roll upon my lips, 

Would they find themselves an alter, 

As you kissed my fingertips? 

I hoped I would read you stories of all the fairy tales, 

But this book that I am closing, 

Has no white and perfect veil. 

If the moment that they left me and my eyes let out a tear, 

Would you wipe it off my cheek, 

And remember I was here? 

I feared I’d never teach you — was very much afraid, 

But the love to you my daughter, 

Is more than beds unmade.  

If I love you were the words that came directly from my chest, 

And it harbored me to breathe them, 

Would you cherish what they’d left? 

I wished to hold you tighter when you would need me the most, 

Daughter I am truly sorry, 

For the things that I had hoped. 

If I love you was the only thing that I had left to say, 

Would it crumble you to pieces or would you simply walk away? 

Your smile is more beautiful than the day I brought you here, 

And now that I must leave you, 

I love you more my dear.