"When he landed himself in the hospitalfor what barely amounted to alcohol poisoning,you were the..."

“When he landed himself in the hospital

for what barely amounted to alcohol poisoning,

you were the one who told me

where he was and

we should have known,

from that moment on, that we

were more reliable than he ever was.

I’m sorry

that I let you watch him kiss me. I’m sorry

that your lipstick was still on his mouth. I’m sorry

that he held you when my heart was still

tucked in his breast pocket.

I’ve learned there’s no such thing

as getting someone out of your system.

It only makes a mess of everything.

After he left, you found me–

we cried our way through this.

Darling,

you were the softest sunset I

ever got drunk with. But to him

we were both just stand-ins. And when

he got the girl he actually wanted, we both

ceased to exist to him.

It took two of us to make half of her and

both of us to turn two halves into

what we thought would never be whole.

We stood each other up, when it was over:

a tower of blocks, too easy 

to tip over. And

when I thanked you, you said
I know you love him as much as I do.

 

And I’ve never forgotten that.”

- WE WERE NEVER MAD AT EACH OTHER (HOW COULD WE BE?) by Ashe Vernon (via latenightcornerstore)