smithereens and smoke

smithereens and smoke

Sweet words cost nothing.  Illusions sold to naive people are the most expensive dreams.  Like a drug addict who always takes his dose, you made your way to me every time waiting for a word.  I could see hope on your face, I could feel your love and I could feel how it hurt.

 You decided to love me, you promised to do it and you kept your word.  When I left your life you understood what kind of tornado I had been.  You understand that women like me do not find their place easily.  I was not made to live in your heaven.  I needed the warmth of hell, I needed to tame your demons one by one, teach you your weaknesses and then leave as if nothing had happened.

 You hoped I would change.  You closed your eyes when I told you that people don't change.  You smiled at me and said that those present are excluded.  You were hoping with all your heart that I would do it.  My dear, I was not going to change.  I just liked to test your limits.  I wanted to see how much you could dream, I really wanted to make you suffer because that made me feel alive.

 I liked to dissect you, to torment your mind with questions, to upset you.  It was like we were playing hide and seek.  You never knew where I would be.  Today I was smiling at you and then we disappeared in the fog for two weeks.  You were the one who saw me in tens of thousands of ways: naive, smiling, dreamy, cold, indifferent, ready to leave, tempted to stay.

 I knew it wasn't right what I was doing.  You paid for the mistakes of the past.  You paid for my shattered dreams, you dreamed for my ruined castle.  Ruins that I don't even remember where they are placed.  The role of princess didn't seem right to me.  I became an architect.  I started building the castles of the others and in the end I was building the doors.  We let them rot in their ivory towers because I didn't have one.  My castle had no towers, no marble, no open door.  My castle had been dusted many years ago.

 You wanted to give me the universe, forgetting that I already had one you weren't part of.  You were preparing for a fairy tale with a happy ending and I was arming myself for a war.  A silent war you had no idea about.  A war with only one winner, a winner who unfortunately wasn't you.

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