Your Wedding

At your wedding, you were the beautiful bride
your soon to be husband beaming with pride
All hundred wedding guests gazed at you in awe
the perfect princess without a single flaw

Standing there I imagined being in your place
What it would feel like to have your pretty face
To be dressed in your expensive wedding gown
and greet the room with your playful mock frown

Your father had paid for everything to excess,
Those were real diamonds stitched to your dress
You said jokingly you tried to keep it low key
then with a laugh "but you know that's not me!"

And who knows you better than your best friend
who will share your joy and sorrow to the end
Holding the train, as you sailed down the aisle
who would protect you in your careless denial

Every detail had taken you months to prepare
and in that time you made yourself not care
That with every plan you put your true feelings aside
and forgot the dirty secrets you tried to hide

Walking down that aisle, I glanced at your face
you hid your lies with such effortless grace
A nervous smile as you took him by the hand
and began the speech you'd so carefully planned

The vows you made were so warm and tender
sincere enough to make his heart surrender
You never hesitated in becoming his wife
too late to change your so-called happy life

I stood behind you as you kissed one another
I lied for you and helped you keep your cover
So ironic when it should have been me with him
that I would help you carry out yet another sin

I smiled when you told me it would soon be me
that I should not look at you with such jealousy
I would find someone to love me for who I really am
that I can make more of myself than I believe I can

And so I stood by, as you both walked away
a silent witness to the dreadful games you play
I kept my promise and never breathed a word
of all the sordid tales of your conquests I'd heard

Four months on you phone me to say you're apart
that he found out about your cheating heart
Sobbing you tell me you are sorry you strayed
that its not your fault, you were made this way

This time though I'll not listen to your fears
or pander to your self-recriminating tears
I 'll not try and hide the lie you have been living
This time you will not be so easily forgiven