A pretty tale

 

What a shame to think you could shrink me

You were always terrified, weren't you?

We often tend to cage the things that we're afraid of and don't understand

That's why you locked up my heart

Thinking it was yours to lock up when truly, it never was.

You played me for a fool…

Thought of me as too sensitive, too soft

It took losing myself to make me realize that.

Because…Was I mourning your absence or my own?

Had I lost you or had I lost myself amidst it all?

Softness is a weapon too you know?

I now know that's why you kept me locked away and hidden

You were greedy

Everyone always has been.

I was a flower the world left to wither in its darkness, but what a shame to view a heart as something so easily broken and so difficult to repair…

And what a relief it was when I found out the cage you built around me was mine to unlock.

All along I held the keys, I always have

This is a letter I'll never send to you because that chapter's over now

So I'd figure I'll write a love letter to myself instead…

And this time around I promise, I will not be reckless with my heart.