I'm Not Garbage

You say I threw you away
That I didn't care about you
The truth is for years
I threw myself away
I didn't care about me
Not enough to set myself free
It took caring about someone else
More than I cared about myself
To get where I needed to be
And now I am here, I can see
All you cared about was you
You never cared about me
You never will truly care about me
But that won't stop me
I will care about myself now
I will never throw me away again