I stand in silence looking out at nothing. The only thing there is the gloom of obscurity, having only the roaring strikes of thunder give a glimpse of light. I listen vigilantly to the howls of the wind, the cracking of thunder, and the heaps of pouring rain; having in mind that what I so dreaded had finally come, my doom day had arrived. I turn and stand gazing with a smile, but with sadness in my eyes as you hide in fright from the thunder. I watch as you peek in every moment. You do this without knowing that this is our last good-bye our final good-bye; before I go off into what is my destiny, the journey life picked out for me excluding you from it. I touch a lock of your dark brown hair twisting, playing with it around my finger like so many times before, but now doing it one last and final time. I maintain you in my arms feeling your body tremble in fright having it long for protection from the thunder. So I squeeze you tighter feeling the warmth of your body and smelling the aroma of your hair. Holding your soft pudgy hands in mine; feeling you clutch my fingers as you begin to doze off as a way to know you're secure as a way to know I'm always there. I look at your dazzling black puny eyes as they gradually begin to close; there in a soothing voice I begin to sing our lullaby and there you fall completely into a deep sleep. They close so tightly as if to be playing hide-and-seek and being the one to count to one hundred. You sleep like an angel. So serenely without a trouble or worry in mind. I lay you down and kiss you good night. I too get in the bed and lay beside you hearing you breathe in and out. I lay remembering breathtaking memories like the day you came into my life making us commence our story of life our bond not only of blood, but also of love. I turn to look out the window and I become aware that dawn is gradually spreading its blanket across the darkness. My face immediatley changes like the faces of the moon because the time had come to say what I so dreaded to say. There bit by bit the words slither out of my lips. I say the words that terrify me the most. I say the words good-bye our final and last good-bye; the closing to our story the ending of our bond. I suddenly undergo this immense pain because right then and there I felt like someone had ripped out my heart and stabbed it to shreds. I was leaving my most beloved jewl and that was you. Without much choice like the morsels of sand that are taken back into the deep ocean blue without having constant second of neither thought nor regret. They just go without option without even a good-bye. I turn to gaze at you one last time feeling the tears I had fought to prevent commence to fall one after another like the droplets of rain that fall down my window; fragments of tears shed on one cheek then they commence to fall on the other. Then I take the official step and am striding out of your life and I'm saying good-bye forever.