Congratulations

I was going to make a really long and dramatic post about love, but I'll leave it at I played myself.

She broke my heart

Because I shattered hers. 

She wanted me to feel what she felt,

To sit in anguish,

Just as she did years prior.

So she devised a brilliant plan.

She did exactly what I did,

And set forth an enormous trail of bread crumbs.

Me being me, 

Lacking confidence and self-esteem,

I genuinely thought she was interested,

Which is why I took the bait so easily.

She played along,

And all the more attached I got.

She pulled the trigger at the perfect time,

Piercing a hole so fine,

And deep that it took me off guard,

Just like she knew it would.

Now I get the humor in our predicament,

She got me to let my walls down,

As I did to her years ago,

And then she stopped responding,

Knowing the silence would drive me insane,

Because that's what it did to her,

That's what I did to her.

Author's Note

Broke my own rules.