To Have Known You

To have known you

Was falling into a deep ocean

Uncovering secrets

Secured and buried

You only revealed the surface

The rest remained hidden from the light of day

A photoshopped identity

Is what you portrayed

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You hid behind your public face

For years

That’s the person I embraced

In time your true self showed through

Now I can say thank you

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Thank you for showing me

That people aren’t always who they pretend to be

You misrepresented yourself

The version I knew disappeared

The real you showed up one day instead

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Dressed in the same clothes

Outside you looked the same

The words you spoke and your actions

Told me everything about the lie you portrayed

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There I was holding on to hope

Believing in second chances

Then you broke me

Like shards of glass, you kicked me away

As if I could cause you damage

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For what you did

I wished you kicked using bare feet

To get a sense of the pain that you had caused me

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I can’t thank you enough

When you thought you broke me

You allowed me to piece myself into a beautiful mosaic

A chance to recreate a stronger and more beautiful version of me

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Thank you for reading!

This piece was first published on medium.