Poetry: Diamond in the Rough

Diamond in the Rough

In case you don't know it or you never hear it,
You've gotten better.
Not in the way I would have suspected.
You became more attractive, but you became the biggest prick.
For that I am sorry.
I'm sorry for making you into that.

But I'm more sorry for the fact that our bridge is so long burned
that I can never tell you how grateful I am that we met.
My life would have been so so so different.
Did we royally screw each other over
And play the most epic game of who-can-act-like-they-care-less?

Yes, yes we did. And I just want to say,
That even though when you thought you were destroying me,
It was only getting me ready
To be the best version of myself possible.
I had a hellish semester last year thanks to your shenanigans.

Yet, it got me out of a rut of unhappiness
I had been oblivious to for far too long.
Even though I had to go through a cloud of depression
To see that I was better off without you and them.

To this day,
you are one of the greatest influences of my life
because you built me up
And broke me down in ways no one else ever has.
 You caused some of my happiest memories.
And you pushed me down the trail towards
The most difficult things I have ever had to face.
For that, most people would hate you.

Now seeing where I am,
How far I have come,
And how much I love myself and those around me,
I applaud you.

And even though you a just a sliver
of the amazing person I once knew,
I hope you find the spark that I somehow managed to take away.
I thought you made me bitter;
but all you did was make me better
Than I never thought I could be.

I just hope that someday
You can find someone who reignites you
to being the passionate world-changer you were
when I first met you.

So here's to you.
Right now, you’re just a piece of coal under pressure.