I Want You to Hear This

You who hurt me,

You who I gave two years of my life,

You who I loved unconditionally,

I want you to hear this.

 

Everyone said we were too young,

You didn’t listen at first.

I let you convince me and draw me in.

You said you would never leave me.

You told me you loved me more than anything in the world.

 

Then you let me go, I was heartbroken.

The one constant person I thought I could count on.

You did not just leave,

You found someone to replace me.

The worst part is you rubbed her in my face.

 

You laughed at my pain,

I could not eat,

I could not sleep,

I even started to vomit.

All because I could not understand how someone,

Who I trusted so much,

could hurt me so much.

 

You contacted me and said insulted me,

“You know you have your own friends, right?”

Then once I stopped thinking about you,

you texted me.

“If it makes you feel any better, I feel your pain.”

 

No honey, no.

Listen closely, because this is the first and only time you will hear this.

Once I would have done anything for you.

Once I loved you so deeply,

But you hurt me.

 

I am doing this for myself more than for you.

It is my time to be selfish.

I forgive you so I can move on.

I forgive you so I won’t cry anymore.

I forgive you so I won’t think anymore

 because listen to me closely,

I have found someone amazing and I thank you for what you did.

I thank you for letting me go so I could do better.

I thank you for all the pain you caused me,

so I can feel happiness with someone else.

 

I thank you and I forgive you.

To you who hurt me so deeply,

I want you to hear this.

 

After you moved on so quickly and left me behind,

I too started to move on,

But I, unlike you, gave the relationship we had time.

I, unlike you, respected what we had.

 

Listen to me closely for this is the last time I will say this,

I thank you and forgive you.

You have no power over me anymore,

You who hurt me so deeply,

I want you to hear this.

 

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