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e you feel unwanted, To make you feel unloved, I did not want to make you cry. Or to make you view our time together As the worst days of your life. I never, ever meant to hurt you.</p><p id="2020">Please know, this is not me gas-lighting, Or an indictment of your views. It is not me wallowing in self-pity, Or my blaming you in any way. This is simply an attempt to say That I am not a perfect human being, I never intended to play the antagonist.</p><p id="dc28">This poem comes from a place of healing and from wondering what I would look like as the antagonist in the story of my life or someone else’s. Maybe I was the antagonist in many parts of the story of my life; I just thought I was the protagonist. I think there may be a fine line betw

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een the two roles.</p><p id="2e8c">~~ <a href="undefined">Rhonda Marrone</a> 8/2021</p><p id="8be5">Thanks to <a href="undefined">Diana C.</a> for this prompt:</p><div id="3978" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/deep-restful-expansive-prompts-441b98c98247"> <div> <div> <h2>Deep, Restful, Expansive Prompts</h2> <div><h3>Wanderlust August edition</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*dpWxGzS11z23B5-MRtQFxw.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

The Antagonist

A Poem for Wednesday & Thursday of Deep, Restful, Expansive Prompt

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I never meant to be the antagonist. I never meant to be the bad guy, In someone else’s story. It was never my intention, To be the fire breathing dragon, That needed to be slayed, In order for you to have a good life.

It was never my intention To make you feel unwanted, To make you feel unloved, I did not want to make you cry. Or to make you view our time together As the worst days of your life. I never, ever meant to hurt you.

Please know, this is not me gas-lighting, Or an indictment of your views. It is not me wallowing in self-pity, Or my blaming you in any way. This is simply an attempt to say That I am not a perfect human being, I never intended to play the antagonist.

This poem comes from a place of healing and from wondering what I would look like as the antagonist in the story of my life or someone else’s. Maybe I was the antagonist in many parts of the story of my life; I just thought I was the protagonist. I think there may be a fine line between the two roles.

~~ Rhonda Marrone 8/2021

Thanks to Diana C. for this prompt:

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