UNREQUITED LOVE
Empty!
Is the best way I can describe
How I feel right now.
How I feel knowing it's over.
That our adventures are over.
That the plans we made will never come to fruition.
Knowing that I gave my all
Every piece of me that I could
Allowing myself to unravel at your feet
Watching you step on my ashes.
3 years of making time for you
To be with you
Because I love you
Not in past tense
Not because I loved you
That would be misleading
Because I will never not love you
I will never again breathe without your name on my tongue
But the taste has turned sour
Knowing that all my efforts were in vain
That my heart was not expensive enough
For your taste
Not fermented long enough for my cellar
And that you could avoid me so easily
And if it's simple
As if I was nothing
Just another bottle of wine,
Forgotten in a box somewhere
Cracked and leaking till there's nothing left
So perhaps I wasn't sweet enough
Or perhaps I wasn't bitter
But whatever the reason
I am done waiting for the rain to fall
I am done desiccating to your name
I have no more tears for you
And you'll never hold me again
-Tom-