Reconciliation

We fell in love

and as we did so, our masks fell

We learned about each other, and ourselves

Realizing that we were pawns, thoughtless

raised to behave a certain way, to get a more desirable outcome.

Marriage certainly seemed to be a desirable outcome, before we knew

that we weren't who we thought

Maybe he sees it differently

Maybe it could've worked out one way or another

But he could never defend me in the ways I needed defending

love me the ways I needed loving

So I will learn to do it myself

This is the outcome I choose