Let Us Grow Gladly Apart

And now that we are done, our lives have just begun:
It’s time to live again!
To go our separate ways.
To put our past aside,
And to improve our lives:
No matter where we’ve been,
It’s where we’ll go, that counts.

The sum of what we’ve done will melt into the past.
Just like this rain that falls,
That clouds my weeping eyes.
And hides my aching tears
In streams upon my breast:
That linger in my hands,
Saying you’ll understand—
That one day, all this pain;
Just like the joy we’ve shared,
Will whisper in the wind, seeming more dream
Than real:
And all these tender leaves
Will wither in the wind
Having no lust for life:
As one day, so shall we…
And knowing this must be, and that our lives
Must change.
Let’s be not, love, estranged;
But gladly grow apart!