Damned If I Don't

She assumes the mistakes are mine, that I am the one who erred

For she endured my little games, that common past we shared.

Yet these days I am innocent of odd things and strange events.

Still accusing me is natural, for her it all makes perfect sense.

In the past did I not play Puppet Master, pulling on her strings?

Did I not deny her freedom’s flight, clipping the angel’s wings?

So I must bear that burden of guilt and pay for my past deeds,

While ever staying aloof from her life and seeing to her needs.

I am no longer one of her suitors, that is a role I no longer play.

My heart dares not take that journey if in her circle I would stay.

Yet I must solve these mysteries and then keep answers from her hidden.

For now another fool is playing those lover’s games that she’s forbidden.

What irony to doom his faulted dreams so she may sleep in peace at night,

For if I reveal painful truth to another’s heart I prove her assumption right