What Once Was Pure Now Is Tainted

I'm still hopelessly in love with you

but I'm trying not to show it

and even though you loved me too

still somehow we're broken

and all the pieces of our life

they wound up in your hands

don't let them fall, don't let them die

cause tonight is our last chance

everything beautiful dies sometimes

when everything pure is tainted

and everything wonderful to your surprise

will leave you alone and jaded

but we don't have to be like that

you're still hopelessly in love with me

but you refuse to admit it

despite how hard I try to make you see

still you pretend to feel different

and all the pieces of the last few years

are dangling from your fingers

don't let them fall like these desperate tears

cause tonight can make all the difference

everything beautiful dies sometimes

when everything pure is tainted

and everything wonderful to your surprise

will leave you alone and jaded

but we don't have to be like that

you took everything away from me

when you left me behind

you took everything away from me

now I'm starting to realize

you took everything away from me

when you left me behind

you took everything away from me

now I'm starting to find

you'll be the one who misses me

you'll be the one who cries

you'll be the one who's coming back to me

I'll be the one who denies

everything beautiful dies sometimes

when everything pure is tainted

and everything wonderful to your surprise

will leave you alone and jaded

but we don't have to be like that

you stabbed me in the back

so now it has to be like that

you promised forever

forever seems so long ago.

Reviews

[ROXANE DORSEY]

I feel like this poem knows my life when my love left temp years ago.

[Travis Prino]

Glad you can relate. There's nothing better than when people connect with what you've felt and gone through yourself.