never grew

I stayed silent when I didn’t want to….

I hid the tears when it came to you…

All the love given to me at a young age was fake….

I did what I did to survive and I had no other choice but to bare their burdens and mistakes….

But my entire world fell suddenly apart….

New paths and love were poured over my broken heart….

There was a space where I could be me….

A space where I felt completely free….

I looked back and I knew….

I could never return to the place where I never had the love I needed, a place where love never grew….