You dragged me through hell,

Tangled in your web of lies,

Then leave me behind to clean up your mess.

How could you? Because of you,

I lost all my friends—

The friends I worked so hard to keep.

Was that your plan all along?

To make me fall for you so deeply,

Then break me so completely

That I wouldn’t be able to pick myself up?

That I would only trust you, and no one else?

I ask you, what broke me?

Why make me fall in love with you,

Just to watch me shatter?

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Why toy with my heart,

Leading me into darkness,

When all I wanted was light?

Each smile you gave felt like a promise,

Yet all it did was conceal your deceit.

Now I’m left picking up the pieces,

Haunted by memories of a love

That turned to ashes in my hands.

So tell me, do you feel any remorse?

Or was my pain simply your amusement,

A game you played without thought

For the wreckage you left behind?

I refuse to be your victim any longer;

I will rise from this,

Stronger than before,

And reclaim the pieces of myself

You thought you could take forever.