The Road to Hell

This one is about something that I did where I thought that I was doing the right thing but it ended in me losing someone I really cared about. As the saying goes "The road to hell is paved with good intentions". Maybe this could be combined with Robert Frost's famous line "I took the road less travelled and that made all the difference". Because, yeah..it did make all the difference...

The Road to Hell

They say
It’s better to
have loved and lost…
But when I count the cost
I say: They lie

For when you
hurt the one
you love
And see
how their opinion
Of you plummets
down into the void

You know
the thing
you cherished
is the thing
you have
destroyed

You fill yourself
With cold recrimination
Of the words you said
you wished you could recall

The words you said
That she could
only see as barbs
When that isn’t
what you meant at all.