--- title: Goodbye date: 2019-02-05T12:12:06Z modified: 2019-02-05T12:13:51Z permalink: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/goodbye/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 1923 categories: - Life Poems featured_image: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/goodbye.jpg" featured_image_alt: goodbye author: Praveen Kumar timestamp: 2019-02-05T12:13:51Z tags: - Life Poems --- ![goodbye](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/goodbye-570x380.jpg) watching the rain drops from the window in the backdrop of the slow moving traffic that seems to have come to a grinding halt my life has become a constant battle between the mind and the heart; the problem is all inside your head so we are told by the coaches what we think is what we become who you are in the mind is who you are in life; a constant [battle](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/battle-life.md) between what is right and what may be right what is wrong and what may be wrong a myriad of options for every situation; who cares what happens, when the rat race keeps us all [running](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/running-dark.md) everywhere but nowhere until life pulls the plug on the race; marching towards the [light at the end of this dark](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/between-light-and-darkness.md) tunnel (life) deciding whether to fight or to [give up](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/dont-give-up.md) is a choice that i don’t know if i have but i [never](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/ill-never-ever-trust-again.md) want to say goodbye; i slowly drift into this nothingness as the road takes me to the horizon waiting for the dawn to kiss goodbye with its rays of [new](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/year-beginnings.md) beginning; --- Inspired by 50 ways to leave your lover by Paul Simon ([YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABXtWqmArUU)) [image via](https://www.deviantart.com/wojciechdziadosz/art/Late-Goodbye-104571855)