We were best friends.
Lovers to be exact.
I trusted you,
You carried me,
We shared our life in unity.
Until one day they told me
You were failing me.
You weren’t good enough,
Were flawed.
Rather than staying by your side,
Standing up for you,
Defending our truth,
I let them dictate our fate.

You became the enemy.
A war ensued.
I raged against you frantically.

Now here we are,
Decades later.
The damage is immense.
Mounds of shattered memories,
Broken kinship,
Crippled happiness.
A life of hatred and of pain.

Yet you did not combat me.
You rose above the torture and disdain.
You chose to be my soldier,
Be my armor,
Be my base.
You waged this war beside me,
As the fiercest shield of all.
A shield of unwavering,
irrefutable,
Unconditional love

So who’s the one who failed the other here?