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No Mistake❌...

The Fine Line Between Mistake and Decision

By Sugan Ya Published about a year ago 1 min read

No Mistake...

If you choose to betray
The one who stood by you,
Loved you without asking,
Without demands, without weight
Of expectation—
That is no mistake.

It’s a decision,
A deliberate act,
A knife in the fabric
Of what was real,
Slicing through the dream
We thought we were living,
Tearing apart the seams
Of a reality we built
With whispered words
And promises.

Mistakes?
They’re whispers in the wind,
Flickers in the corners
Of our minds,
Accidental blinks in the light.
But this?
This was a shadow
Creeping in the daylight,
A choice made in the blinding sun,
When everything was clear,
Yet you chose the dark,
You chose the cold.

Don’t try to disguise it,
Wrap it in the mist of excuses,
Or drape it in the fog
Of a careless apology.
You knew,
You saw,
You felt the pulse
Of pain before it throbbed,
And still,
You let it bleed out,
A slow, surreal trickle
From a wound you carved
Into the flesh of trust.

Now, you stand
In the ruins of what was,
The air thick with the smoke
Of shattered dreams,
The landscape distorted,
A surreal painting
Of what could have been,
Of what you turned away from
In a single,
Deliberate,
Act.

But forgiveness?
It’s a mirage,
Shimmering in the distance,
A ghost of what once was,
Elusive,
And perhaps,
Unreachable.

So tread carefully,
When you choose to hurt,
For the echoes of your choice
Will linger like a dream
That haunts the waking mind,
A surreal reminder
That this—
This was no mistake...

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Sugan Ya

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  • Poppy about a year ago

    'A knife in the fabric Of what was real, Slicing through the dream We thought we were living, Tearing apart the seams Of a reality we built With whispered words And promises.' Oh. My. Gosh. This just kept getting better and better. So evocative and breathtaking. The whole poem was a masterpiece.

  • People often never realise what they have and always take things for granted. That truly hurts a lot. Loved your poem!

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