A River for a Void

I loved you with all my heart, a river, deep and vast,

While all you ever loved was a mirror of your past.

I gave you everything I had to give,

But still, it was not enough for you to live.

You said you stopped loving me, yet laid the blame on me,

Accused my love of being something you could not see.

I was the hand that helped you up when you would fall,

But you blamed me for your failures, and for them all.

All I wanted was a glimmer of your grace,

Instead, you gaslit and blamed me in this lonely space.

You walked away, the one who chose to leave,

But you took the victim's crown, a story you wove to deceive.

I held your name as sacred, a truth I couldn't shake,

But to you, I was just a chapter, easy to erase.

You labeled me as selfish, in a final, cruel decree,

But you were the echo in the void, the only one you'd ever see.