I stand in the middle of the highway, watching the cars swerve around me.
I see the receding taillights as the car, and person I once knew, speed off into the gathering darkness.
There’s no way to catch him.
He’s gone…
My strength fails, and I sink to my knees.
I hope, I pray, that I will be struck, and my misery ended…
But I know.
The misery has only just begun.
I told myself that without him, I was nothing…
And I forced myself to believe that.
While I gave him my everything, he gave me his nothing.
No….
Another got his everything.
And I was helpless to stop it…
I couldn’t win him back, although I tried so hard.
He was gone…
I flashback to the night he said I love you…the night my heart soared.
I remember the time he held my face...and said I was the only one.
Did he really love me..?
Was I really the one?
No…
It was all a ploy…a cruel game.
A game in which I have no chance of winning.
Every word I said to him, every kiss I gave him…
All of it was true…but how was I to know he was playing me for a fool.
I fight back these tears, thinking of those days, because I know…
They’re gone…
I raise my head once more, to take one more glance at those faded headlights, far away in the distance.
He’s gone…
I rise.
I stand on my own, and I finally see the strength in me.
I turn, offering no glance back.
And I walk away.
I walk away from that highway, and I walk away from that car.
I walk away from that life, and I walk away from that boy.
With a smile, I know…
I’m gone.