I realized this last night, laying in bed.
"To love is to destroy." Clarissa Clare
I stood before the Lady Artemis, faced with a choice. I looked away from the goddess and over to the person I had loved with all my heart, until the day he broke it.
"I love you." Cole said, but I knew he was lying.
Those three beautiful words. They had been said so often they were drained of their meaning and stripped of their significance.
So many times people have said those three precious words and not meant it. How many times has someone said "I love you" and even though you don't feel the same, your immediate response is "I love you too"?
Over the years, those words have been neglected, no one seeing the power they have. No longer meaning "I'm here for you, I won't leave you, I am yours", now they are empty. It used to be big to tell someone how you felt. Now, it happened every day, each time stealing another part of the message within "I love you."
No one realizes how strong those words are. They no longer hold the place they used to. The romance has been stolen, taken away. The importance those words hold is gone, replaced only by false intentions. No one waits for the rush of butterfly's you feel when the person you love whispers those words to you under a veil of stars. The message is lost.
Many times people have said "I love you" to me, and the result was my heart being broken. When it finally mended, it was just crushed again, by someone new, who took advantage of me. I was done having people hurt me because of those words.
"No, you don't." I said to Cole.
I was tired of the empty "I love you"'s, tired of being fooled and hurt.
I knew my decision.
"I pledge myself to the Lady Artemis,
I turn my back on the company of men,
End all romantic endeavors
Accept eternal maidenhood,
And join the hunt."
its rather depressing, we took the meaning out of such important words. we took advantage of them, and now they will never mean the same again.
they lost everything they stood for.
Knightshade
