this is a lil thing I did cause I was down in the dumps bout an old flame (they hurt me bad y’all gon hear bout this one quite a bit so I apologize in advance(this was more for my benefit)) hope y’all enjoy
If ever there was a reason I’d regret something, I’d always try to reconcile. To re-evaluate. To understand why I did what I did and why I needed to do it in the first place. I can rationalize the feelings away, (it’s the Capricorn in me) and eventually, stop hurting over it. But one day in the early spring of my junior year, I saw you. Walking by me, catching my eye like raven spotting a shiny. I didn’t want to approach you at first, but something compelled me to. Something told me to talk to you, to know you. To say hi. And so I did.
And so for almost a year, through hell and high water, through my parents and my horrid lifestyle, we made it work. Wasn’t the most comfortable or convenient situation, but we made it work. We made plans. We had dreams. Dreams of each other, of a future made of us. Unfortunately, no one knew the pain that would ensue at the end of that year. No one knew the mental and emotional suffering I would endure, and would continue to endure well into the future. Of course, I didn’t know either. Had I had known I might’ve not messed with you in the first place. But your smile.. Your laugh.. The way your eyes twinkled when you were enjoying yourself. All that, and more, drew me to you. I had to know you. I had to talk with you.
And now here we are a year later. Me, halfway across the country and trying to find a name and a happiness I could claim for myself and you… You’ve become… Someone I don’t know. The person I laid with in the back of my old car, the person I cried with, sobbed over, the person I almost died for… I don’t think..-no, I know that’s not you anymore… at least, that’s not who you are now.. and I know it’s wrong of me to hold on, wrong of me to yearn and wonder, to continue torturing myself with the thought of the old you.. The feelings that I had for that person will never go away.. how could they..?
You were part of a pivotal moment in my life-you were the catalyst. I gave up everything. I almost gave up my life. I wouldn’t be here today if not for many things. Despite being my reason for my want of death… You were also my motivation to not end it. I wanted to prove to my parents that we could be all that they said we couldn’t. We could be happy, we could live long and have kids, and be who we wanted to be.. But life had different plans.. You decided that a break was a good enough reason to leave. I decided that that was a good enough reason to hate you. I didn’t want to. I wanted to keep on loving you. I wanted to keep on caring for you, having you in my life made things technicolor again. Life was always more colorful with you..
So here I am today. Hoping on the one hand, that you’re happy. That you’re living your life to the best of your abilities and that whoever you happen to be in love with now is either yourself or someone you think will treat you right. On the other, I hope that you’re just as miserable as me. Trying to hate me in an attempt to hide the pain of losing me, but missing me all the more as the days go by. Wishing I would come back, wishing I would love you again.. But if that was the case, you would’ve taken my offer at a second chance, right..? You would’ve told me yes, let’s start over. Or maybe that you needed time to think it over. But I guess it just wasn’t meant to happen that way.
I know you said to get over you, (because you were who you were and if I didn’t like it I could leave, right?) but in case you forgot (I bet you did, you always were so forgetful) You were my first. My first everything. I didn’t know how to do things right with you, and for that I’m so sorry. But I told you when we were together that I’d never stop loving you no matter what. No matter what I’d never get over you, you’d always have a place in my heart and you still do.. At least.. Who you used to be still does.. I told you that I wanted to get to know you again. I wanted to be your friend and start over… but I guess not everyone wants to be amicable with exes. It’s fine..
I hope and pray, and sometimes I know, without a shadow of a doubt, that you’ll come back. Whether as a friend, an acquaintance, or I hope a lover. I keep telling myself it’ll never happen, because my luck with love has never been that good. I thought I hit the jackpot with you, and never did I once think that you’d be all too happy to leave me. All but too happy to let me go. My mistake right..? The only one who’s struggling with it now is me.. It makes me wonder.. Did you ever truly love me..? Did you ever truly care..? Even if you didn’t, it wouldn’t matter. I loved you. I love you still. It pains me everyday. But I bear it, in some god forsaken hope that it atones for my mistake and brings you back to me. I know it won’t. But a girl can dream.
I hope one day you can find the courage needed to come talk to me. Goddess knows I’d give anything for you to smile at me like you used to. But, knowing my luck, you’ll end up hating me more instead.
Sincerely and (unfortunately) Forever Yours,