I Was Wrong About You 

When we met, I dismissed you as nothing more than a pretty face

Then you gave my heart reason to beat again as I came to know you

Through times cruel touch i came to know you differently

Where once I saw an angel

I saw a fallen angel

Who seemed not to care as she buried the knife in my heart

I had bared it open before you and had I paid more attention i might have seen it coming

You weren’t content to plunge the knife though

You poured salt in the wound again, and again causing it to stay open

Yet never even in my worst moments could I claim to hate you much as I tried

I couldn’t turn love into hate not after you bade my heart to beat again

And beat back the worst of my demons

Hell, I could even sleep next to you without medication

Your embrace was freeing in a way i haven’t experienced since

Now I see you as you are a broken person same as I was, and am

Now I see you in your true form

I just wish I could have been to you what you were to me

I see you now not as a rose but a dandelion growing through the cracks no less beautiful

But more resilient

Maybe I still don’t know the fullness of you maybe it tore you apart the same way it tore me

When we ended things

I say we even though it was your idea

I agreed because I couldn’t bear to break your wings to keep you with me

Now we are actually friends again like neither of us truly dared to hope

Oh, we said we would be, but the words were hollow

The wounds too fresh

Still, you were my angel, and you still are though not in the same way

May haps one day I’ll come to know you in your fullness

Without hiding without fear

Just as you know me the same