Maybe at one point we were meant to be.
Or maybe we never were.
By
Updated 6 years ago,October 17, 2019
It was all my imagination.
Jessica Joseph
The idea of what we could have been.
I so badly wanted to be your person.
It always felt like it would happen eventually, even if the signs were there.
The excuses were never ending, but so was my love for you.
I believed in the illusion that it could still work out in the end.
You made me question myself.
Question my beliefs, my morals.
I was starting to forget who I was.
I was beginning to lose myself in you.
Then I saw it.
That first picture of you and her.
The millions of pieces I tried to put back together only made the wound that much worse.
All the ignored texts, plans that fell through, late night calls.
They were all because she was there.
She was there taking up your time.
You were answering her texts.
You were making plans with her.
Youd call her during normal hours.
I suddenly became the other woman.
I somehow became the homewrecker in a home I thought I was building.
It took a lot for me to get past that.
To believe I deserved more than what you were offering.
To forgive you and get over something I never fully got closure for.
But I knew you too well.
I knew youd never let me walk away peacefully.
As if it didnt hurt enough.
As if telling you I was falling for you wasnt hard enough on its own.
I now had to learn to catch myself from falling for something fictional.
So youd check in and follow up to see how I was doing every now and then.
Seeing your name pop on my phone would send me into a downward spiral.
But then I met him.
And it was like your power over me no longer worked.
It was like I had gotten over you because someone else showed me how I was supposed to feel.
Someone who wanted to answer my texts and see me.
Someone who treated me the way you werent good enough to.
Now I look at your social media and feel nothing but happiness.
Happiness for me and you.
Happy that I was able to move on and so were you.
And maybe shell fix all the broken pieces you hold on to.
Maybe shes exactly what you needed, and I was just a good distraction from your sadness.
Maybe shell make you that better man youve hoped to become.
But every time I see you together, I see something I had never seen before.
And I feel happiness that I didnt end up with what I thought I wanted.
I feel happiness in knowing you are no longer what I want.
So this is to you, the guy I thought Id never get over.
Maybe at one point we were meant to be.
Or maybe we never were.
But what feels even better?
Knowing Im over this chapter of my life.
Knowing that seeing you no longer puts a knot in my stomach.
Knowing that I have relinquished your power and fully gained my strength back to move on.
