BETRAYAL in 3 parts: 3

A mess of thoughts;

Maybe betrayal is not leaving. Maybe it isn't loving someone so hard, taking them to fly high above into the stars, and then dropping to the ground. That is pain, both for the victim and for you. But that is not betrayal.
Maybe betrayal is not cutting someone somewhere you know there are scars already. Maybe it is not letting words fall out of your mouth that escape too fast for you gather them. Maybe betrayal is not the blood of broken promises you shattered.
Maybe betrayal is not all that we think it is.
Maybe betrayal is something that you do to yourself.
Maybe it is a mask you wear.
A lie you tell yourself.
Poison you left on a garden that you grew together.
Demonization of a love lost.

You are untrue. You are bitter. You have been swimming in loneliness for so long you forgot that you haven't always been this way.
You can love someone lost.
You can love a love unreciprocated.

Talk to your heart.
Ask it.
Ask it where it is.
Ask it what it wants.
And no matter the answer,
You listen.
You follow it.
Even if it is lost dreams, or gone loves, heights so high you could not reach with the tallest ladder,
You listen.
And once you listen to its wishes,
It will listen to you.
It will take you where you need to be.
And if you don't?
That is betrayal.