Means To An End (A Poem by Amanda Best)

This was a poem that I wrote when I realized that I had made a mistake when I had trusted someone who ended up being a completely different person than I had originally thought they were, and a completely different person than who they had led me to believe they were. This poem speaks of finding out the truth, of realizing that you were just the Mean To An End for someone, and with that realization, finding a way to make that person the Means To An End in a way far more damaging than you were to them. I will state right now that I never did anything like what this poem speaks of to any person, but I took the pain and anger this person caused me from what they did and channeled it into becoming a better writer by using that pain and anger to express my disappointment in how they treated not just me, and not just how they treated themselves, but how they treated all of the people that we love and all the people who love us by causing that anger and pain in a single person, by making every single one of those people a Means To An End.

Means To An End
--Amanda Best


I finally
See you
For who
You really truly are
I have
Put up
With you
For far too long
I no
Longer care
For you
Or your company
To me
You are
Just the
Means to an end
But now
Your end
Does not
Justify the means
I know
This must
Hurt you
To the core
But you
Left me
In pieces
And brokenhearted
I warned
You from
The start
What would happen
Should you
Decide to
Treat and
Use me like you did
Now you
Know what
It’s like
To be used like that
To love
Then tossed
Aside like
You never even mattered
I have
Just one
Question now,
“How does it feel to be on the other end?”