The Blood & The Bones

I am not the villain

I am not a thief

For what belongs to no one

Can never be stolen

He was lost long before

My light lured him in

When your trysts became known

I removed myself from the triangle

Even when he pleaded

And said he was never yours

His lonely heart screaming

Only holding on to the past’s covenant

But never claimed and never promised

For how can a married woman

Ask her lover to remain faithful?

But I am not here to provide judgement

Or ask forgiveness

Only to give in to him

And to what we cannot deny

To welcome him into my arms

And love him like he should have always been loved

Your heart can believe me to be the villain

The thief who took the man you loved in secret

But, we both know I am not to the thief

I am not to blame

For your past’s mistake revisited.

But what I ask of you is this

If you must make me the villian

I hope you strive to become

Your life’s own heroine

Who leaves the past in it’s place behind you

Asking for love from only those who cannot be stolen

And building upon what’s not already broken.