Chance by Jessica Singleton

It's hard to look away 

when all you 

have ever wanted 

is standing beside you 

but 

it's harder to stay 

in the place 

that will only 

remind me 

of what 

I will never have. 

I offered you everything 

for nothing once before.

And 

you wanted everything 

but me. 

Now you need my help. 

I wish you would 

not say things 

that you can't take back. 

You felt so right-

That once long ago 

You taught me blind faith. 

I believed in you 

Until you were 

exposed as a myth. 

Now I have 

a stack of diaries 

that have turned into 

broken fairytales. 

I say the most 

Horribly beautiful things.

I hurt you with my pain.

You are a beautiful fantasy 

mixed in with a dream. 

You are lucky.

You always will be.

Because unlike me-

Someone actually 

cares about you.  

And 

On some shelf 

I still love you. 

I'm careful of you now. 

I will never break again. 

This time- 

I will be an old friend 

rather then an asylum 

full of regret.