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to happen. However, smart and untrusting you are, that exception to the rule is all it takes. The story is always the same give an inch and a mile would be taken.

Often times I wonder at the causes of betrayal, and who should bear the blame. Was it wrong to have trusted, was it payback for a beef, malice, or just jealousy? Or perhaps for a believer like me, the devil's handwork in antagony to my faith or the heavens way of punishment for wrongs done without seeking repentance. For the pain of being betrayed is unlike any pain, it is debilitating and traumatic and any who has gone through is never left the same again.

Yet as I stood and watched in agony, with a thousand and one thoughts on destruction, revenge and getting even racing through my mind and my fists clenching and unclenching some unexpected thought like a bulb in a dark alley suddenly lit up my brain. It’s done and it’s over, nothing you do can reverse it, But anything you do shall bear consequences which would be greater on you and be an addition not a reduction to that pain in your heart. M

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ake no more mistakes, the truth is only to be embraced, be glad it came sooner.

As I turned and walked away, with the tears blinding my way, I was only glad it was a path well known for if I had lingered or tarried longer, the story I tell today might not have been the same. This because, as I reached that turn that was going to put the distance between me and that unforgettable scene I heard my name clearly called out, the voice confirmation of what I just saw and also the last of it I would ever hear. I walked and never looked back, there was nothing left behind.

To date I have only kept on moving, tough though it was at first, the days have gotten better and warmer. Progress has been made, new affections gained. The sun did eventually rise, the universe realigned and if I had any regrets in life, it would be this; That the betrayal came not early enough, For it came to teach me how to live, the joy of bonding from the heart and not the peripheral love I was keen to accept. The joy of a love so true and friends( yes plural) so real!</p></article></body>

10th March 20XX

Betrayed

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Standing there looking on, I felt a shift in my demeanour, slight though it was at first, it grew with alarming speed. I could feel the jitters down my spine, my cheeks inflaming and my fist clenching tautly as I beheld the sight before me. I didn’t know which hurt more, their matching coloured outfits or the perfect fit of their curves reclining against a pillar, seemingly declaring to the world in unabashed abandon that they were one. If looks could kill, mine would annihilate and banish to the depths of hell, she that I trusted and him that I loved. As cliched as it may sound, that one person you trust might just be your worst nightmare, waiting to happen. However, smart and untrusting you are, that exception to the rule is all it takes. The story is always the same give an inch and a mile would be taken. Often times I wonder at the causes of betrayal, and who should bear the blame. Was it wrong to have trusted, was it payback for a beef, malice, or just jealousy? Or perhaps for a believer like me, the devil's handwork in antagony to my faith or the heavens way of punishment for wrongs done without seeking repentance. For the pain of being betrayed is unlike any pain, it is debilitating and traumatic and any who has gone through is never left the same again. Yet as I stood and watched in agony, with a thousand and one thoughts on destruction, revenge and getting even racing through my mind and my fists clenching and unclenching some unexpected thought like a bulb in a dark alley suddenly lit up my brain. It’s done and it’s over, nothing you do can reverse it, But anything you do shall bear consequences which would be greater on you and be an addition not a reduction to that pain in your heart. Make no more mistakes, the truth is only to be embraced, be glad it came sooner. As I turned and walked away, with the tears blinding my way, I was only glad it was a path well known for if I had lingered or tarried longer, the story I tell today might not have been the same. This because, as I reached that turn that was going to put the distance between me and that unforgettable scene I heard my name clearly called out, the voice confirmation of what I just saw and also the last of it I would ever hear. I walked and never looked back, there was nothing left behind. To date I have only kept on moving, tough though it was at first, the days have gotten better and warmer. Progress has been made, new affections gained. The sun did eventually rise, the universe realigned and if I had any regrets in life, it would be this; That the betrayal came not early enough, For it came to teach me how to live, the joy of bonding from the heart and not the peripheral love I was keen to accept. The joy of a love so true and friends( yes plural) so real!

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