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Betrayal

April 22, 2016
By juliahu SILVER, West Windsor, New Jersey
juliahu SILVER, West Windsor, New Jersey
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Favorite Quote:
"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars." -- Vincent Peale


I thought I could trust you.
I believed we’d never be apart.
I even gave each of you
half of my heart.

 

But I was betrayed by him, the man I loved
but more importantly by you, my beloved best friend.
Had you been tricking me all along with a disguise?
Had our friendship been fraught with lies?

 

Seeing you two together naked on the floor,
I couldn’t even bring myself to walk out the door.
Agony clutched my soul,
pain turned my heart into a black hole.

 

Then my anger rose to the surface,
I know you definitely did this on purpose.
In an explosion of rage I challenged you to a fight,
But in the end I could not stand up to your might.

 

I walked away,
nothing left to say,
with my body beyond repair,
tears in my eyes from despair.

 

But when I looked back and you had disappeared,
I felt the hole in my heart get wider and deeper too.
And I realized too late that in the end
the one I missed wasn’t him but you.


The author's comments:

This poem was again inspired by Sula. It was written from Nel's point of view after she discovered that her best friend Sula had stolen her husband Jude away from her.


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