Yes, relationships are nuisance
You devote yourself to one person hoping they do the same.
Hoping the other person doesn’t use your vulnerability to stab you in the end.
I know you don’t want this…
You tell me you love me while you admire others behind my back.
You deserve better,
Well it's only you that I want.
But… I know that i'm not what you want anymore
A break?
I suggested that, but you begged me to stay and work things out.
I said that we just needed some time apart.
But with your words I caved and stayed.
Lies are all you told me.
Lying your way out of the hard parts of our relationship.
Lying to me, whom you claimed to love.
“The truth” that you crave is bittersweet, something that you will never accept.
I cried to you almost out of breath.
The light that once glimmered in my eyes,
Shattered by those words.
Maybe we should stop.
But I love you…
I love you, I do
Lies.
This poem is inspired by an old relationship, and the lies that went along with it. My poem is structured as a conversation between two people and how their relationship slowly declined, depicting the similar conflict I had in mine. This poem is a reflection of what went through my mind during that time.
"This poem was very interesting, it expressed how love can be so bad. How one drops there walls in a relationship just to get stabbed behind their back. This poem was filled with emotions, and as the reader I felt all of it."
--Victor Rivas
"We may not all have the same relationship but your piece really felt like a reality of check of what was going on in my relationship. Now I have the confidence to leave the things and people that are holding me back."
--Allyson Verduzco