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-