What do you want me to do,
To make you feel that I’m suffering just like you?

What do you want me to say,
For you to understand that I also struggled to leave you that day?

You’re obsessed with this idea of how I was the only one who got away,
That I escaped feeling any heaviness in my chest when I realized I couldn’t stay.

I tried so hard to be with you,
Only for it to lead me astray.

You don’t understand now, but I hope you will later,
I did what I had to do so that we could each become greater,
Even if doing so means that you’ll forever label me as a traitor.

© Grinchy