You Only Miss Me When I'm Gone (Poem)

You Only Miss Me When I’m Gone

You only miss me
when I’m gone.
You only love me
when I’m leavin’.
I should’ve known it
all along.
It’s always been this way
between us.
You only want
what you can’t have.
Well, you won’t be
havin’ me for long.
‘Cause you only miss me
when I’m gone.
You only miss me
when I’m gone.

I was always there when
you were lonely.
I never argued,
it is true.
But when it was me
who needed someone.
I looked around,
but where was you?
I never asked you for
the whole world.
Just a shoulder
when I cried.
I guess it’s still too much
to ask for,
for you to be there
by my side.

‘Cause you only miss me
when I’m gone.
You only love me
when I’m leavin’.
I should’ve know it
all along.
It’s always been this way
between us.
You only want
what you can’t have.
Well, you won’t be
havin’ me for long.
‘Cause you only miss me
when I’m gone.
You only miss me
when I’m gone.