So you're going to say that you're sorry
For all the shit you've done
You're gonna say you're sorry
Because after all you were the one
Who stomped on her already bleeding heart
They were your words after all
That rendered her apart
It doesn't make it better
That you already know
That she was never all together
Of course, you knew it all along
So this would put you even further
In the wrong
They all say you're a monster
That you attacked her unprovoked
Did they ever once consider?
That you too were a victim?
Caught up in the madness
Lost in the confusion
Now the guilt still haunts you
To this very day
She is the one instead
Who can simply walk away
Author's Note:
This is a poem about someone who realizes far too late that they ought to be guilty for the wrong they have done to someone else. Even if people treated you badly in your past, that doesn't give you the right to inflict pain on other people.
This poem wasn't supposed to reference a physical/sexual attack. Though re-reading this it sounds like it could be since the relationship between the two people mentioned here is unclear. It's about someone who was emotionally toxic, actually. I want to make that part clear.
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