He lied and they said its okay

He Lied and They Said It's Okay

He promised me stars,

In his soft whispers, they sparkled like distant dreams,

Told me I was the moon

He’d hold close every night,

But I became the shadow that faded beneath his light.

He said he would always be there,

A lighthouse in my storm,

And I believed him.

He said he would never leave,

So I let myself fall,

Like rain from a cloudless sky,

Unsuspecting, naïve.

And when he painted his love on someone else’s canvas,

They said,"As long as he comes home to you, that’s all that matters."

I wondered if I lived in a world

Where men were the sun, untouchable, free to burn,

And women like me, the wind

Invisible, silenced by their fire.

I come from a world where women submit

Flowing in the direction men command,

And men rule like mountains,

Unmoved by our tears.

A world where marriage is a golden cage,

No matter your age,

No matter your dreams

They wither like forgotten flowers.

Males can propose marriage to your parents,

And your opinions don't matter

But I refused to follow.

I refused to be like them.

Now I wear their shame,

And my little one a stone cast into the river,

A bastard that's what they call him.

Sometimes I wonder if, in my past life,

I was the storm that wrecked their homes?

Maybe that’s why I suffer now.

But who cares who I was?

I am who I am now.

But it all started with a lie,

Small as a seed, but it grew like poison in my veins,

A lie they promised would never hurt anyone.

But it swallowed me whole.

So my question remains

Am I, was I, not someone?

But then again who cares?

All I know is that he lied

and everyone said it was fine!