Time to tell

You broke something within me
and I kept it my own.
I thought the pain would always stay
and I never said a word.
The thing you broke won’t seem to heal
but no one knows what it is.
I have felt so many different things
but all you saw was happiness.
I kept it all to myself
up until now.

Now it is time to tell everyone
just how sad I’ve felt,
just how angry I have been
and just how lonely I have felt
with no one there to talk to.

But I would like to thank you
for making me stronger
for making me feel all this pain.
Because now I know
I haven’t cried in vain
I feel better now and I’m okay.
But I also know that someday
someone else will again make me
feel this way.