I Told You So

by DarkCloud   Jan 10, 2019


I told you so
When we first met I said
You’re just being kind
You don’t really care
I’m just too different
And you’re beautiful
Someday you’ll leave like everyone else
No one cares
They all want you
How could you ever understand?
My pain is endless
Yours will prove temporary
You create your problems
Mine are inside of me
You’ll forget me
And move on
And never look back
Taking my last semblances of hope with you

Now I’m alone
When you said those words
I asked if I could trust you
And I believed you
Damn, I believed you
With tears and a feeling of finally feeling
I trusted you
And thought I had been wrong in the beginning

But I just saw you’re getting married
To the one I knew you cared about more?
Or someone new?
I don’t know. It doesn’t really matter
You’ve found your happily ever after
You’ve chosen someone who isn’t me
Your love for me quickly went dry
Then you pushed me away
And eventually you didn’t even want to be friends.
Just like I said in the beginning

See? I was right, and you are wrong
You are beautiful and loved and blessed and social
You never really cared
You never will care
But you’re happy
And you’ll never see this
I am right
And I was since the beginning

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  • 5 years ago

    by Milly Hayward

    A thought provoking piece that can be interpreted in several ways.

    Whenever you have a strong belief in something that is going to happen it has the potential to become a self fulfilling prophecy because what you believe can taint your behaviour and how you behave to others.

    In the case of the characters in this piece the main character believes strongly that the new love interest is too beautiful and popular to stay with him/her and so seeks to extract a promise that the new love won't ever leave them because based on past experiences people always leave him/her.

    Entering into a relationship feeling that way would show insecurity to the new love and would possibly manifest itself in ongoing negative and self depreciating attitude and behaviour which would most definitely contribute in pushing the new love away.

    Thus leaving the main character to crow loudly about being right all the time (in the last stanza) whilst at the same time being completely oblivious that they had been the unwitting cause of the loss of the love interest thus the self fullfilling prophecy coming to fruition. A cleverly thought out piece. Milly x

    A cleverly thought out

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