Choosing Her

How can she possibly love you 

When all you show her 

Is disappointment. 

Secretly despising her 

Because she has a heart, 

Claiming you know how she feels 

When yours could never come close. 

Reprimanded for being there for others 

Because you are too weak to stand on your own. 

You are supposed to be her safe place, 

The arms to protect her. 

Instead, you are the one causing her pain, 

Too proud to admit that it's true. 

So, you point your finger, 

Tear her apart with your own insecurities 

In the hope that she will keep relying on you, 

When all you are doing is feeding her strength. 

She has been down further than this. 

When you found her, 

She relied on no one but herself,

Weary of people like you. 

Through her pain she is learning resilience, 

A strength you will never know. 

While you claim to love her 

You are losing her 

As she slowly loosens her grip, 

Finally choosing herself again 

Because you never did.-