I never loved you for who you were
I loved you for who you could be
The light within the darkness that seemed
Inescapable, impenetrable, inexorable.

“Will you always love me?”
“Of course.”
I don’t think you lied
I think you didn’t understand the question

I spent so long waiting that I withered away
Frozen in the snow
You fell in glistening flakes all around me
I held out for the warmth that you could never truly give
Try though you did

“I’m sorry.”
I looked into your eyes,
The one part of you that could never lie,
And all I saw was the truth.
It would have hurt less if you were insincere.

I never said you were a mistake at all.