Because You Loved Me

Because you loved me

I saw beauty in the mirror

I felt happiness in my heart

I felt love every night

Because you loved me

I believed you when you promised the world

I tried to please you

I stood by you when you left me in the dust

Because you loved me

I spilled tears on the bathroom floor

I felt my heart ache and burn

I learned what it means to have loved and lost

Because you loved me

I was introduced to betrayal

I found that bruises can form on the inside too

I was shattered into fragments of myself

Because I loved you

I miss your hands embracing mine

I feel a void left behind by you

I realized what I lost when the leaves changed

Because I loved you

I appreciate what it means to have loved and lost

I am a stronger woman than I was before

I know that love is not what you told me it was

Because I loved you

I can see the warning signs that I was blind to before

I will not let anybody else travel the path we traveled

I will not stay quiet any longer