I should’ve double texted,

Triple texted or maybe lived to flood your messenger with words of love

Told you how I appreciated you

How it all started out as a game

And ended as a fairytale.

Some might say love makes us do things we wouldn’t

Some might say it suppresses our voices, our emotions

But I know I should’ve

Held your hands in public swinging them in motions

And in between tightly held them for reassurance.

They say that’s how love works

One day you’re inlove and another you’re swimming in your own tears

But I know I should’ve

Been your protector

Maybe your actor

In a Hollywood screen blocking every weapon formed against you

But how would I’ve done that

When I was one of those who dragged you down

Slowly dragging you to your grave.

And you reap what you sow

And some I saw

How I treated you unfairly

Made those butterflies in your stomach turn to bats

And a world so bright turned dark

Maybe I should’ve

Tried to change my ways

When I saw you drowning in your own tears

Dying from your own thoughts.

Now that you’re gone

I realize I should’ve

Protected your image

Reciprocated the energy

Lived to love you

But

But……

Now time’s what I don’t have

And you’re o’er

Feeding on the daily bread

And feeding on happiness

Maybe I did bring you to happiness

I know I didn’t do what I should’ve done

But atlast you came across light once again.