A Tale About You and Me

©Adane Firde

Once upon a time, someone like me loved someone like you.

Of course, I will not go around telling them you were bad for me, even though you were. Because what would that make me?

How bad could I have been myself to fall in love with someone like you?

Of course, I will tell them how easy it was for me to leave you because I was the bad one. How am I supposed to tell them that you were the one who left me despite my sacrifices?

Because how bad could I have been to love someone like you?

I’ll tell them that it was you who cried when I left when we both know that it was I who broke down in tears when YOU left.

Because how bad could I have been to love someone like you?

I will tell them I deprived you of love and affection and that drove you away. We both know, of course, that I showered you with love in a way you had never experienced. But, how am I supposed to tell them that?

Because how bad could I have been to love someone like you?

I will tell them I was bad for you. I will tell them you deserve better. I will tell them you had a pure soul and that mine could not combine with yours.

Because how bad could I have been to love someone like you?

How can I explain why I fell in love with someone like you?
How can I admit I was wrong to love someone like you?
How can I accept that all of my love wasn’t enough for someone like you?

Because you deserved none of it. Because you deserved none of me.