«i love him immensely but he thought i am too…» — Summary

i love him immensely but he thought i am too young and naive to think like that...it was his fault he made me fall for him, so damn hard...i thought i was fighting for love but he was fighting for friendship. he promised me forever he promised me he was going to catch me he promised me love and i fell for it,i wanted him to be everything he wants to be and happy so i let him go for real this time...

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Maria's untitled poem is about unrequited love, told in the raw, unpolished voice of someone still hurting. The speaker loves a boy or man deeply, but he dismisses her feelings as too young and naive. She blames him a little, since he made her fall "so damn hard," and she realizes they were never on the same page: she believed she was fighting for love, while he was only fighting for friendship.

The middle lines repeat "he promised me," which makes the broken promises feel like a list of evidence. He swore he would catch her, and she fell anyway. The ending is bittersweet. She lets him go "for real this time," which suggests she has tried and failed to do it before. Her goodbye is generous, wanting him to be happy, but it still carries pain. The mood is sad, tired, and honest, like a message written late at night, with the lowercase writing and loose punctuation adding to that unguarded feeling.

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