#NeverForget

Before you took my breath away, you took my breath away. Always at a loss for words around you. I thought I found you. Until you lost me.

Before you choked me up, your smile had me choked up... Stumbling over the right words to say. So afraid to look like a fool but you made a fool of me.

So naïve, thinking women envied me. What I thought were fake smiles really turned out to be genuine. Those smiles were noting but silent laughs worn by the women you put in front of me and let me shake hands with. I dug myself out of silence and finally found a voice. My choice to use it came with consequences and plenty of backlash.

Love taps turned into open-handed slaps. I couldn't, for the life of me, figure out why I was fighting for my life. You said you'd give your life.

Warm hugs turned into drugs. The pain meds were never quite enough to rid me of the headache that you bring. Or the wounds that sting.

I could call my Daddy to kiss it like he used to when I was a little girl. But those two S's might turn to two L's. And a lost life isn't what I'm looking for. Never been the type to make too much of a scene so I stay quiet. But enough is enough when you can no longer hide it.

So now, you try to get me to think of the good times. And you wonder if I ever reminisce. Well, the answer is YES!

I'll never forget! I'll always remember... After you took my breath away, you took my breath away. 

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