Split Sides

It Is What It Is

I look at this old place

Where once our bonds stood.

This is the place we used to be

A time of such joy and pleasure.

Full of heady thrills and discoveries

That we took to heart,

We saw a trace of ourselves

In our very different places.

We sought things to unite us,

To bring us close,

Ignoring the obvious fact

The fork in the path

We couldn't see.

Little by little we found

Details impossible to understand.

The consequences of which

Would hit us very soon.

I don't know if you knew,

Possibly you didn't know too,

But the details turned into errors

By then it couldn't be rectified.

The insouciance we had in the start

Could no longer hold us together,

No more progress I saw in you,

There was only a gaping chasm.

Three little errors,

That was all it took.

It may be worth nothing to you,

But the results were grave to me.

I wanted to keep us together,

I wished I brought it to you sooner

But you were too deep in it,

The rot is now a part of you.

I couldn't see past it anymore,

I couldn't keep living with your pain.

The differences became insurmountable

And so I was left with a drastic choice.

I decided to give you the boot,

For being with you

Could no longer be justified.

The bond we had was burnt to ashes

And all that was left was scorched earth.

I know the poison of deceit left in you

And I'll be dead long before

You could even fathom forgiving me.

So I won't ask for it,

I will not beg.

I only hope one day you'll realise

Why I had to do it.

Nowadays you are far away.

And somewhere in your heart

The fig tree of hatred grows

Where your memory of me was.

But I have kept echoes of our bond

For posterity's sake

And lessons to be learned.

It is what it is,

And so the chips remained where they fell.

I wrote this after thinking of someone from my past. Don't worry, it's just something I needed to get off my chest. Thanks and much love.