Echoes And Roses

LOVE or PITY

I have a heart and it's quite broken.

I read your words as if they were spoken.

You'll love her for the rest of your life,

But she didn't want you; she was another man's wife

She used you and left you a shell of a man,

I picked you and gave you all that I had.

I gave you my all,but it was never enough.

Reading the poems you write for her is extremely tough.

I hate a woman I've never even met,

She took the best of you, and left you a wreck.

To her you were merely an escape and a fling.

The day she abandoned you, you felt her sting. 

But why spend so many years trying to turn back time?

While I've got the punishment for another women's crime.

I hate the feeling of being second best,

I should have left you alone and searched like the rest.

But for you I felt pity, I saw a person to heal.

But my emotions are wasted, you don't care how I feel.

I should feel loved, wanted and desired.

Instead I feel lonely, weary and tired.

A few words of wisdom to my younger self,

It's better to be left up on the shelf.

Don't put up with what you don't deserve.

You should always be priority, never reserve.