love and learn

and he just left one day
with no plan to return
that’s the thing about love…
you live and you learn

and he said he’d come back
one more promise he broke
one more lie that he told
in the riddles he spoke

i wish i could have known
that he wouldn’t stay
that he’d be like the others
bound to walk away

nothing lasts forever
but you learn to move on
so love while you can
before one day it’s gone

and i get a little bit stronger
with each passing day
but i hope you know that i loved you
in every possible way

fake love

July 23

it was never about the money
it was all about the time
it was the hope you’d give your heart to me
when you already had mine

but you couldn’t do that for me
not even if you tried
’cause you can’t feel a god damn thing
other than your pride

you don’t make any sense to me
you contradict yourself
it’s not that you don’t feel a thing
it’s just emotions are withheld

but then you’re on and on about
how you feel nothing at all
or maybe it’s just internalized
and you hide behind your walls

maybe you need to figure out
exactly who you are
and how to move on from your past
’cause it’s gone way too far

you just continue breaking hearts
leave destruction in your wake
I wish you’d figured out your life
before I gave you mine to break

how much more damage will you do
before you realize
maybe love’s not meant for you
you should open up your eyes

take a look around yourself
see the pain that you have caused
’cause it will all come back to you
once you see what you have lost

I hope one day you look within
and maybe you will see
no matter how you placed the blame
it was never about me

I remember once upon a time
I thought you deserved the best
that you were what I waited for
but you’re just like the rest

guess I’ll take some of the blame
for making that mistake
for not seeing who you really were
and that your love was fake