I can always tell when they are starting to lose their grip.

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Updated 5 years ago,June 11, 2020

I am not for everyone.

But it never is, and I am never the one.

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youssef naddam

I am the stepping stones on your path to true love.

I am always here to comfort you, but you are always running when I need you the most.

I am always just a little too much.

I am just the training wheels you use while you learn how not to treat someone you love.

after you grab outgrown me, you never look back.

I hold you in your darkest moments, yet you release me once I shed a single tear.

I search your eyes for the truth, but I always come up empty-handed.

I am just the runner-up and the consolation prize.

A dozen trophies line my walls, all boasting the same phrase, you tried.

I will never have that shiny gold star or brilliant blue ribbon.

I am in the background, while you are living out your dreams in the limelight.

I am your escape plan for when times get tough.

I never knew how much having fun could hurt until you told me that was all that we were.

I take your abuse so that the next person does not have to.

I am your plaything, your punching bag, and everything that you are ashamed of.

I am your darkness that will never see the light.

I ease your anxiety, as you only heighten mine.

You think of me when you are lonely, and I think of you because I am in love.

I am only temporary, and they will always be the permanent ones.

With me, you recover.

With me, you are loved until you are finally capable of loving someone else.

I am longing for the day I finally get to be that someone else.

I am the one who fixes you so that they do not have to.

I am the bitter one, the one on the sidelines who is always getting the sideways glances.

I am the one they always talk about, and yet, somehow never remember.

I will always be here to save you, without expecting you to do the same.

I am a lover.

I am your lover.

But we will never be in love.

Your feelings for me are empty, while my feelings for you are endless.

I will never be the one you choose.

I will never be The One.