Bad Guy

I ran when I should have stayed

Instead of being faithful, I betrayed

I cried and wept when I heard the news

I couldn’t accept that there was nothing I could do

You’d been there throughout the good and bad

I should have done all I could to keep you from being sad

Time past, life changed, our time together a distant memory

Until you made it all come back crashing down on me

Years passed by so fast they blurred

A rope. A noose. Is what you preferred

Too late to change the past

Too late to tell you to make your life last

I should have kept you from your vast river of tears

I think the same thing every time I walk past a mirror

“Am I Bad Guy, because I made you cry?”