Like you.

I’m sorry I ran away.
I’m sorry I didn’t wait,
like I normally do.
I just know better now.
I’ve learned that waiting for boys like you
means that I’ll be left alone
while you go on with your own life
because you won’t come back.

I know that if you don’t try now,
you won’t try again later.
You’ll just disappear.
I’ll only be another memory — another girl.

You may wonder about me,
you may occasionally miss me,
you may ask about me
but you will never love me.

Because boys like you don’t really love,
boys like you only know how to take.
They can’t just give their all,
they can only give bits and pieces.

But sometimes they give their all
to someone else
who can’t give them their all
because they only like what they can’t have.

But it’s too soon, you say —
things might change.
Be patient.
Give it time.

But I’ve loved boys like you before
and they only left me broken
no matter how long I waited
and they never said sorry.

And I’ve loved boys like you before,
who carry treasures within their heart,
but they won’t let me dig deeper to find it
because that’s their private territory.

So I learned to run from boys like you
even though I want to stay
but boys like you don’t want girls like me
and I know this now.

Boys like you want girls like you.
Boys like you ignore girls like me
because they think we’ll always wait.
But girls like me also get tired — and they leave.

Thank you.

@Regrann from @poemsporn_  -  To the people who have been there for me when I was falling in love and canceled many plans for a boy, thank you for sticking around even when I didn’t deserve it.

To the people who have been there for me after getting my heart broken, thank you for giving me support when I was too weak to stand up on my own. Thank you for listening to me rant and weep for months about the same boy and the same story. Thank you for not giving up on me. And thank you for telling me that this boy wasn’t going to be my only love story.
To the people who have been there for me when I picked the wrong college guys to fall in love with, thank you for telling me they weren’t worth it. Thank you for making me still make those mistakes and not judging me for it.

Thank you for not leaving.

To the people who have been there for me when anxiety overtook my brain and I felt myself falling into a rabbit hole. Thank you for showing me compassion, and believing me when I said I was suffering. Thank you for telling me I was going to get through it and meaning it wholeheartedly.

To the people who have seen me try to forget my worries with too much wine or too many kisses that didn’t mean a thing, thank you for telling me to stop.

To the people who have been there for me through every single up and down, thank you for loving me at my worst. Thank you for loving me even when I was a terrible person and when I let you down.

Thank you for loving me even when you didn’t want to and even when I didn’t deserve it.
Thank you for not letting me go through this journey alone. And thank you for being a part of my downfalls and uphill mountain climbs. Thank you for your love when I didn’t feel lovable. Thank you for being my best friends, my cheerleaders and my soulmates. And thank you for being my forever love story that I never had with anyone else.
—@laurenjg5 via @thoughtcatalog
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