Loyal to the End

This is somewhat of a meshing of situations... an over flow of circumstance, so to speak. Someone, a few years ago, told me that he would not leave me, so long as I did not let him down... within the context of the statement, he was asking me to be something I was not, but I loved him... and I tried. Today marks the two year anniversary of the day he told me I'd failed. 
Secondly, many people, as of late, have asked me to be something I am not. I am a very religious individual. That being said, I have never been the kind to throw my religion at others, or to claim to know all of what is right. I find it arrogant, and self righteous. I am of a gentle religion. But many have projected onto me, the ideas of hatred, and judgement, and hypocrisy. This piece is a kind of retaliation... I do not aim to please people. I live for no one but for my God, and I am proud to say that I have become a much better person for it... in the end, I will give no one the power to call me a failure, because the only one who will ever know how hard I try is the one who created me... not some former close friend whom has claimed to know the lies they think that I tell.