I Am Grateful For My Life Lessons

Sometimes the pain of these lessons never seems to lessen.

Oh how I loved you and you just couldn't love me back so you pretended and took what you could. You couldn't find the courage to tell me so you strung me along...taking.

I remember so vividly preparing for your birthday celebration. Tickets bought for the theater, the house spotless, the best wine, a great meal and a cake like no others. Such special care with every chore down to the most magnificent linens on the bed.

You arrived looking angry, feeling cold and distant. Still, you took. The meal, the wine, me, the expensive theater tickets...all with cold abandon.

You kept me hanging onto a string, waving the proverbial carrot until you found something better. I was ready to do what was right but I need just a little longer to give up the fight.

My heart still breaks knowing that you intentionally used me. I believed you to at least love me as a friend and be honest. Looking back, I was such a fool.

I wish you well to this day although I would like to believe that looking in the mirror, you see yourself thru my eyes.