Blinded Love
by Erin-Grace Zara I put you on a pedestal even i wasn’t able to reach. A voice inside my head keeps repeating, don’t give up just yet, there’s still a chance it could be. But i know deep in my heart there won’t be, you said you didn’t want to lose me. But you weren’t even trying to keep me. This isn’t meant to be cliche but you were the monologue played by the girl who falls in love too easily. You see, i thought of you like the thought it takes to breathe. Poems over poems, every word reciting to your..pretty… brown eyes. So mesmerized, by the way you said my name. Nights felt like years, reminiscing the last time i felt at peace. You see, you were handing out empty promises like cupid with his bows and arrows on valentine’s day. My mistake… for oversleeping in arms i should’ve stayed away from. I feel trapped inside this cement wall but tell me, how do you stop taking the nicotine from a cigarette that was disguised as your medicine? I need to be strong, too many times i’ve let myself fall and stay there for too long, just breathe. I don’t want to leave, i know i should leave, i just wanted you to be happy, but you seem happier without me. NO. My self-respect is not worth the exchange of your missed concept of love. Self-respect is not choking on my words for your apologies. It is not ignoring the signs knowing i deserve so much more than what you give me. So i guess this is my goodbye, i resign from loving someone who doesn’t want to be loved, and now i see. Erin-Grace is a Junior in Ms. Barbour's World Literature class. She enjoys writing in her free time.
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