If only you could stay a while

Not so long that you can’t come back

Not for so long that it becomes a crime

Just long enough that I’d drift away

Believing the lie that you’d come along

And when I return, I won’t panic

I won’t follow you to where I can’t come back

I won’t go to where it would be a crime

I’ll thank you and walk back away

I’ll know that your time was up