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Day 2. The Unrequited Love Poem

2. The Unrequited love poem: How do you feel when you love someone who does not love you back?

I love a boy

Who does not love me.

I have a heart

But I don't know why it still beats.

I saw him today

But he didn't see me.

I would stay for him;

He can easily leave.

I cried about my love,

But nothing was changed.

I told him of my love.

He said he didn't feel the same.

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How does unrequited love feel? It feels like someone you trust is taking your heart and slowly shredding it into thin little scraps and then burning them. It feels like you're choking, drowning in the hopelessness of a lost dream. It feels like pain, so much pain your stomach convulses and you feel like you could throw up. It feels like you are dying. It feels like you are already dead, cold and numb and with no future. It feels like salty tears streaming down your face and on your lips. It feels like a heavy metal box sits in your breast, and sits there and sits there... It feels like your mind is splitting in two, trying not to think about him. It feels like misery dripping upon your head, stinging your skin, when you do think of him. It feels like love, which hurts enough when it is returned. It hurts ten times more when it's not returned.

I love him. God help me, I love him. God help me, because he doesn't love me.