We're Broken People

[Inspired by She's Broken by Billie Eilish]
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There was a girl
With stormy grey eyes
And this is the story
Of how she met the boy
With emerald green eyes
There was a girl
And this is the story
Of how she got d e s t r o y e d

She met him years ago
On that playground
When their smiles
Still held that childish innocence
And maybe she knew then
That this boy was pretty
But he was only going to
Rip her up
Little by little
Bit by bit
Until she was nothing
But ashes

And that's what he did
Yet the girl chose to stay
Even when she knew
She would only be
Destroying herself
She gave him her hope
She gave him her love
She gave him her strength
And he gave it away
He gave his hope
To someone else
His love
For someone else
His strength
To someone else
Everyone
But her

She sold her heart to him
Her senses
Her body
Her mind
And eventually her soul
Until she was almost reduced to nothing
She smiled for him
And he smiled too
But never back at her
She gave him her support
No matter what he did
She believed in him
But yet,
He never stood with her
And only ever stood against her
He broke her
Over and over
And yet she still found something inside
To gift him

Why did she stay?
Because she wanted him to notice her
To look at her
The same way he did
At those other girls
Because she craved his touch
She craved his acceptance
She craved his love
The reason why she stayed
Because she loved him
And he was in love too
But not with her

She spent her days
Chasing after someone
Who would never turn back
To look at her
Even when she fell
Even when she bled
Even when she broke all her bones
She tore herself apart
And cut herself up
All for the boy
With emerald green eyes

But all things must come to an end
And so would this
The girl with grey eyes
That once raged with power
Fury
And chaos
Were empty now
The water
Had been drained out of her ocean
There would be no more storms
There was only a haunting emptiness
In the shell of the girl she once was
The girl she stabbed
Again and again
Repeatedly
Until she died
And all she was now
Was a ghost

She had sacrificed her everything
On an altar
Dripping with blood
To the boy with green eyes
And left nothing for herself to live on
Because
He was her life
But she was not his
So he accepted her sacrifices
But never accepted her
Even with that unrelenting love of hers
She knew
When to let go

"Since I gave you everything,
I no longer can live.
I hoped you would give up your all for me too,
But you never did.
And even though,
I was never your everything
I just hope you will
Remember
There was someone,
who put you up there
There was someone,
Who let you step on her
To reach where you are now
And that someone
Was me."
The girl with grey eyes
Never came to school again
She had destroyed herself
With her own love for a boy