You said you’d give it all up for me, you’d change your ways, change your scene.

But I never wanted you to change, all I wanted was for you to love me for me

As I loved you for you. Boy, I would have given you the world

Had you let me, but to you I was just another girl

That had a heart attached to you, only you. Yet you couldn’t believe in me,

In us, or anything that was in between.

You took my breath away in kisses

When we were only separated by inches.

Some days I don’t think you ever gave it all back;

You held on to me as I held on to you, two lovers attached

At the hip, nothing could come between us.

But everything I did, it was never enough

And you let go, or maybe I let go first.

Unpracticed in the art of love, unrehearsed verse.

Everything fell away, little by little,

You never wanted to try to meet me in the middle.

Now I can’t even look at how far we’ve come because it’s too hard to look back.

I know it’s in the past

But you kept a part of me when you walked away.

The seems at the end never mended, always frayed.

I hear your name, my heart leaps to my throat and I

Can’t breathe, even when you’re not near. My eyes

Search the crowd, but your never there.

I listen for your voice, but it isn’t easy to hear

Over the sea of everyone else around.

Looking to the ground,

Oh hey. I found my dignity.

You remember, the thing you took from me?

At least you taught me to swallow my pride,

I just wish I could have taught you not to bottle your emotions inside.

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By: Katie Ann Marine- Engelbert

June 22, 2011