What happens
when I finally settle for someone
who isn't you?
Will you be okay with that?
Will you turn away,
go back to being a stranger
because watching me happy
is too much?
Will you smile for me from afar,
knowing that this time—
I chose myself?
Will you finally grieve us?
Not the version of us you imagined—
but the one we never gave a second chance?
Yeah, I was too young.
Maybe even a little dumb.
But I would've learned.
I would've tried.
I fixed everything I was supposed to.
Worked on myself.
Got better.
For me.
And maybe, just maybe, for you too.
But you never locked the door.
And I never stepped in.
I knocked,
you answered,
and I left.
We were both too scared to try again.
I would've.
You didn't.
You're the love of my life.
You were it.
And now you tell me to go find someone.
What if I do?
One day.
Will that be your wake-up call?
Or will you just be happy
that I finally did it?
That someone else
gets the version of me
I always wanted to give you.
—MistakenGenius
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Surviving Heartbreak
PoetryA lover girl who got her heart broken one too many times and now ended up writing poetry about it
