after a breakup
people said move on
that i'd find someone better
they told me to take it as a lesson
something for the future

they said
i didn’t matter to him
as much as he mattered to me
and somewhere, deep down
in the bottom of my shattered heart
he once swore he wouldn’t break
i knew they were right

but how do i tell them
i fell for a sweet, funny boy
who once swore he’d marry me someday?
how do i explain
that no matter how hard i try
i can’t bring myself to hate him?

not a single piece
of my broken heart he left
has been able to forget him

how do i tell them
moving on
feels like betraying him

how do i tell them
i never wanted the lesson?
i just wanted to be
loved by him