You were my first love, did you know that?<\/p>\n
I’m sure you did. You were always pretty clever,<\/p>\n
even if I didn’t always act like it.<\/p>\n
When you said yes, I was so grateful.<\/p>\n
Then you said no, and it was like part of me died.<\/p>\n
It’s no excuse, but if I’d know then what I know now,<\/p>\n
Maybe you and I could still have been close.<\/p>\n
When I lost you, I didn’t just lose my highschool sweetheart,<\/p>\n
I lost my best friend.<\/p>\n
Everyone told me I wasn’t good enough for you.<\/p>\n
In a way, I agreed. To me, you were an angel, incapable of wrong.<\/p>\n
Things are different now though, Marisa. I’ve moved on. I’ve grown up.<\/p>\n
There’s no right or wrong way to apologize for how I acted after we parted,<\/p>\n
If I were you, I probably wouldn’t want to speak to me either.<\/p>\n
Either way, you’ve changed me, and if I could go back and time and change things,<\/p>\n
I think maybe I could have helped to change you for the better, too.<\/p>\n
They say it’s the broken path that leads to paradise.<\/p>\n
If that is the case, I guess I’ll just have to continue being grateful to you for breaking my heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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