Unrequited

Unrequited

Fear, love, pain and lust

We’d forget them all

For a moment’s trust

Your opinion of me

So high in my eye

A lie lingers there

I just pass you by

So skewed from my view

Barely noticed by yours

Overlooked, overworked

Trying to be heard

To be seen

To be feared, felt

Loved

Faith, doubt, hope and heart

So fragile and dependent

On another’s part

Your eyes never see

A slip of the lip

The quick cover up

With unwearied wit

I won’t be ashamed

Of my pathetic rogue heart

Overlooked, overworked

Sometimes it hurts

To feel doubt

To feel faith, hope

Loved

Devotion and shame

So easily unnoticed

Through my own pain

Of feeling unloved

He’s forward; I’m awkward

Towards his advance

As an afterward

I apologise

Unloving, and unloved