Once a Love Letter

Once a Love Letter

This started off as a love letter to you,
but on the way it evolved into something different.
Something with dripping fangs,
razor-sharp claws.
Something to tear your heart in two
like you did to mine.
Do you like what I've become,
do I appeal to you now?
This is so confidential,
the feeling that I actually might have...
potential.
And when you think of me, remember,
I could have been the best you've ever had.
Instead, you're left with regrets
and lies, whispered to yourself at night.
Is anything you say ever true?
Has my whole life been some lie,
with me destined to always make the same mistakes?
Am I a doomed, tragic figure of lore?
Well don't worry about me, I'm doing just fine,
coping with the loss of the last of my sanity,
thinking less about what might have been
and more of what is to come.
So this may once have been a love letter,
but it’s come a long way from that,
twisting, growing, shaping itself into this.
Something to ponder in the darkness,
whenever you feel alone.