You Tried to Warn Me

I gave you pieces of me, not expecting the same from you,

You told me you couldn’t give me what I needed, but I thought I could persuade you to change your mind.

How foolish I must have looked trying everything to get you to stay,

I fell in love with you, knowing your love was for someone else.

Your heart wanted what it desired, and that desire wasn’t for me,

I can’t be mad at you, for you warned me at the beginning that I wasn’t the one for you.

I took that as a challenge to move forward chasing after you, not thinking of the consequences of the aftermath,

I am the one left with the broken pieces of my heart, for I went chasing after something that didn’t want to be captured by me.

A lesson learned from my stubbornness, but how I wished I had heard you at the beginning so I could have spared myself these hurt feelings.