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