In Love Poem by Under A Microscope

'I love you', these words, pretending to be truth yet lies
spilled from your mouth as if you were breathing in and out,
as normal and as comfortable as I always hoped it would be,
though from the moment I first saw you I knew you were never mine
to keep.
You were but a passerby, a thief, and a teacher at most.
Coming in and out of my life in one cosmic blast,
that made me stumble, happy, confused, scared and
drunk all at the same time.
You stole my thoughts, my desires, my ways, in the mist of
all of this you stole the only thing I cannot replace.
You took this heart that I will never see again,
for once it is taken there it shall remain.
But for all of this you gave me hard lessons in return,
of trust, doubt, respect, dignity, grace, humor, passion,
self-control, independence, honor, selflessness, forgiveness,
and what it is to truly love unconditionally.
These lessons some of which I repeated over and over,
to the point of exhaustion and depression,
have made me not a stronger, but a wiser person in the end.
And so it came to the point I knew it would,
I would have to be the culprit wanting to be the victim,
I would have to choose to let you go, to set you free,
for although I am in love you, you were never truly in love with
me.