The Blood & The Bones

People can tell you they love you all day long. It’s not even difficult and you don’t even have to mean it. They can profess it in lyrics. They can fly it from a plane in the sky. They can take out a billboard. They can tell all their friends. They can shout it from mountain tops. Because words are easy … so easy.

But, if they leave you time and time again aching and empty. If they make you feel worthless and disposable. If they can walk away from you knowing just how much pain they repeatedly cause and yet will re-enter your life when it suits them and make you believe they’ve changed knowing they’ll leave again when they’ve had their fill…

Well, tell me, would you think of that as love?

The saddest thing I’ve ever realized is that there are people you loved selflessly who will wreck you… destroy you. And when they leave you can break your own heart with the way you end up thinking about yourself.. damaged and discarded. Yes, you can rip your own heart out and fuck it up beyond repair as you analyze all the words you said and things you didn’t do until your mind is mush and you cry yourself to sleep wondering what you lacked that caused them to leave again… again.

Is that really love?

No, my darling, it’s not.

LL~