By sweetness
Date: 2002 Mar 24
Comment on this Work
[[2002.03.24.15.09.11275]]

Unrequited

A flush rose prettily up her face
that's the first thing I remember
everything after that is a blur.
She danced and shimmered and
sparkled her way into
the fabric of my life
so that before and after her were
indistinguishable;
the moment I met her it was as if I had
known her
always.
And that's thing about
loving someone you can't have;
pain and heartache can be more
enduring than happiness,
and longing for what cannot be
can keep love alive long after
it should be extinguished.
If she had loved me back
would her memory be colored this
hazy, tearful shade
that sends me into fits of longing?
No, there would be clear, careful, specific
things to miss,
I would not be left with the agony
of memories that never came to be.