UNREQUITED

I stare at you with lovelorn eyes
Wrapped up in my vacant pride
Scared to tell you how I feel
Scared to dream
To reveal...
I stare at you with pain filled eyes
You’ll never know
Never know
Why
I stare at you
I stare...
This bittersweet
I’ll always feel
This constant ache
When I’m around you
Your presence brings me grief
You touch robs me of breath
This deep seated pain I feel is because of you
This complicated sea of emotion I swim is your fault
Unfathomed currents I plunge
Plumbing this unswimmable sea
Ever sinking
Drowning in love
My heart is a swollen vessel of ache
A reservoir of hurt
A vessel of pain
I know I should tell you
I know I should
Reveal...
But I’m scared
And I fear your rejection
For it will cut me more
It will wound me deep
And so I stare
With lovelorn eyes
Scared to feel
Scared to reveal
And you'll never know why
I stare
I stare...


Copyright by Kavita Nandlal