It was going so wonderfully at the very start,
No force in the world could have kept us apart,
I really thought you were it for me, ‘the one’
And for the first time in forever, I didn’t run,
Faster than a bullet, you had crept into my heart,
Blinded by love, I didn’t expect us to fall apart,
Your betrayal played through my mind in slow motion,
And I thought “what a waste of unbridled devotion”
Gaslighting, hurting & infidelity as the cherry on top,
Always condescending, you were never gonna stop,
You never wanted peace, you just wanted anarchy,
Frustrated, I was screaming ’Fuck the patriarchy!’
Hiding behind fake promises & counterfeit emotions,
Your deceitfulness was deeper than all the oceans,
I was drowning while you stood there and watched,
And your attempt to help was strategically botched,
It was hopeless to wait, and when it finally sank in,
There was no point in fighting a war I’ll never win,
So I packed up what’s mine and fled the battlefield,
I knew your ugly sides won’t always be concealed,
I thought about what I would do if you ever changed,
But going back to you would simply be deranged,
You’d inflict the pain I had grown to know all too well,
That’s the tragic story of a battered heart in a nutshell.
-Amy x
