Who is the author of this poem - You never said I'm leaving, You never said goodbye...?

Question

You never said "I'm leaving"
You never said goodbye
You were gone before I knew it,
And only God knew why


A million times I needed you,
A million times I cried
If Love alone could have saved you,
You never would have died


In Life I loved you dearly
In death I love you still
In my heart you hold a place,
That no one could ever fill


It broke my heart to lose you,
But you didn't go alone
For part of me went with you,
The day God took you home.


I saw somewhere on the internet that said it was by W.H Auden but I have found nothing since then to back it up. Please can anyone help?

Answer 1

You can rest assured it's not Auden and you may be getting a certified letter soon to remove even the hint of his name along with this sappy poem. This poem is more than likely something clipped from a church newsletter and circulated via the net. It is generic and poorly writ.



Maybe poetry should be calling a lawyer too.

Answer 2

You Never Said Goodbye Poem

Answer 3

I went through the same thing. I had a kitten that i had basically raised from within an hour of her being born. My fiance and I loved her so much and i could just sit there and stare at her because of her all mighty cuteness. Whe she was about 3 or 4 months, i had put her into my room for about 20 minutes. When i came back in she was just sitting on my pillow, her body twitching, and she couldnt keep her eyes open, she just kept meowing. We freaked out and rushed her to the vet and eventually she slowly started coming too, but not even the doctor could figure out why this happened to her. He came to the conclusion that she'll fell, bumped her head and got a concussion. This was not the case, it was actually the beginning of something fatal. Over time her stomach started expanding and getting bigger and bigger and never in my mind did I think it was because she had a fatal disease. she had trouble walking, and she just didnt seem right so we took her to the vet, she had just turned 6 months old I believe. The vet ran some tests, and finally came to the conclusion that my little Daisy-Mae had FIP, and will she wouldn't be around much longer.She had 2 forms of this disease,one affecting her physical body and her organs, the other affecting her nervous sytem, ensuring her imminent death. We cried so much and i couldn't even look at my baby because she was deteriating rapidly. I didn't know what I was going to do without her, I had grown so close to that little one. She died a week later, a few hours before we were going to put her to sleep, upside down on her back(I believe she had a stroke)looking up at me. It was so hard to see her like that. But it makes me feel better that my fiance was sitting there holding her head and he was singing to her when she passed. After about 2 days, I started to feel alittle better because I knew she didn't hurt anymore. I only think about her when she was ok during the happy times and sometimes it still hurts me but then I remember that Daisy was meant to pass hours after her birth in the garden. She got to live a happy life full of love for a few months, and thats better then nothing. Just wanted to share my story because I've been there and I know that life does go on, and you will be just fine.

Answer 4

I wrote this poem! It was actually a rough copy version that I wrote after my brothers passing. I wrote 4 versions of this poem, all similar to one another, but it seemed too simply written to capture the feeling I wanted the readers to feel. I finally just took a break from the poem to let my thoughts and feelings build, hoping that inspiration would eventually strike...after a few months I woke up one day and wrote my final version titled "Faded Memories" , which is a re-disigned mirror image of the feeling and emotions I intended to capture originally...I just recently was on Pinterest and noticed that this version of my poem was being circulated under many different titles all of which give credit to an unknown author...This poem has spread like wildfire throught the internet and I have tried to track down its source, hoping to be able to prove that I am the original author but every path I take leads nowhere.

Answer 5

well someone ripped the ending off of a poem called The Day God Called You Home.. look it up and you will see.

Answer 6

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._H._Auden

www.audensociety.org/poems.html

http://books.google.co.in/books?id=HAHcutWZKOMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=W.H+Auden&source=bl&ots=FS9dFG72Xz&sig=gzZV2aJNIScbS1DmUU3nkggWSQE&hl=en&ei=w9V-S9HjHdaSkQX4n6T1BA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CB4Q6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=&f=false