Jan 2017
i don't miss you
or the way you made me feel.
i don't miss how you thought you deserved
every ounce of my attention
simply because you gave me all of yours.
i don't miss you saying you loved me,
and demanding to hear me say the words back
when i knew they weren't true.
i don't miss you
or the way you played with my heart
yet still had me believing that you loved me,
that i was your one and only.
i don't miss you
and i don't miss us.
but i thank you.
thank you for teaching me what love is not
what friendship doesn't look like
and what true love would never do.
or the way you made me feel.
i don't miss how you thought you deserved
every ounce of my attention
simply because you gave me all of yours.
i don't miss you saying you loved me,
and demanding to hear me say the words back
when i knew they weren't true.
i don't miss you
or the way you played with my heart
yet still had me believing that you loved me,
that i was your one and only.
i don't miss you
and i don't miss us.
but i thank you.
thank you for teaching me what love is not
what friendship doesn't look like
and what true love would never do.
I didn't realize the damage being done until I was out of that so-called "relationship." This poem is my way of dealing with those feelings I have kept harbored for over a year.
