This poem is dedicated to anyone who has been in a one sided friendship--a friendship in which they gave their all, but the other person did not truly care. This poem is about the breakdown of a friendship and losing a friend who you truly once cared for. Writing this helped me realize you don't need to stay in a toxic friendship. Sometimes for your happiness, you have to leave negative people and situations behind.

You let me go

I didn't let you go

For all we once were

We are now nothing

You are insignificant to me now because you made me insignificant to you

You were once a star in the heavens, now you are a piece of hell,

Not a call or a text, it’s like you didn’t even care.

You let me go,

Once upon a time you had my back,

Then you stabbed me in the back,

you did things that made me want to say goodbye,

you played games, broke my heart and my trust,

you were malicious and manipulative, deceitful and deceptive,

you let one person affect years of friendship,

I guess that nearly a lifetime between us meant nothing

I always gave you my all as a friend, but you gave me nothing.

You let me go

When you didn’t care,

When you disregarded me completely,

Was it a friendship built on reality, or was it a dream, a fantasy?

Was I just a foolish dreamer thinking you actually cared?

I was a dreamer, and you were a fraud,

Feigning friendship and love, then letting me go without a word.

You let me go,

Because of it

this situation,

could it just be evolution,

Mine and yours,

But you let me go first.

Therefore, I let you go

I would've stayed,

but you made it so easy for me

to let go.