PROLOGUE
This poem explores the turmoil of an individual confined in a loveless marriage, reflecting on the lost potential of their relationship due to deceit and emotional betrayal. What once was an optimistic connection has deteriorated into a bleak reality filled with sorrow and disappointment. The speaker expresses a deep sense of anguish, oscillating between moments of happiness and despair caused by their partner’s emotional distance. The concluding plea, “If you don’t love me anymore, then set me free,” signifies a desperate wish for liberation from the relationship, highlighting the struggle between hope and the painful truth of unfulfilled love.
If You Don’t Love Me, Set Me Free
The good things in life are fleeting like last night’s dream.
What seemed promising before had now lost its gleam.
Once a dreamy pink champagned rose-colored fantasy,
our future now is a bleak, gloomy, disheartened reality.
Rainbows stretching from strawberry fields to lavender skies
That magical world now crumbles due to your lies.
Hope and innocence that once thrived with so much fervor,
are now tainted with doubts and despair as I remain to suffer.
Your presence graced me with lots of ups and downs
One moment I’d be above the skies and the next I’d drown.
You kept your distance and your silence birthed my mental anguish.
The flame that once burned bright in my heart is now extinguished.
The sparkles and the light that you once saw gleaming in my eyes,
are now vacant and gone since the prospect of our future dies.
The illusion’s been broken and the ugly truth is now what we see.
If you don’t love me anymore, then set me free.
