Sunlight Lies

I thought you were the morning sun,

The gentle start when night is done.

But dawn was just a clever lie,

You were the storm behind the sky.

I used to ache to hear your name,

Brendon, your love was more than a game.

I praised the way you lit my days,

While choking on your hidden haze.

You smelled like heaven's scent,

But now there's just a rotten stench.

You never loved, just used my pain,

I wore the loss, you took the gains.

The light has changed. I see it now.

Betrayed me and forsaked every vow.

Your voice once sweet like summer rain,

Now sounds like rust and drips disdain.

I kissed your flaws, I carried your weight.

I accepted crumbs and called it fate.

But love should not require a mask,

Or feel like a burdensome task.

No pardon waits for what you stole.

No poem can fix my fractured soul.

No words can heal the trust you scorn.

No bridge can mend what you've torn.

Now when the sun lands on my face,

It doesn't warm or erase.

It shows the cracks, hurt - the cost.

So much of me was deeply lost.

So here I stand, no longer blind.

A shard of sun that won't rewind.

Love's bitter taste, now clear and wise,

The truth beneath the sunlight lies.