Loving From The Shadows

(THIS IS NOT A FANFIC)

She's my best friend and she is also taken. It was a 4 year love affair that consumed me. But the guy she loves is not a good guy. It was not truly my choice that it ended, but it feels better to tell myself I had some say in all of it. She was someone who really influenced the way I saw things in terms of not being able to have what I wanted and just being close to a life that I really envisioned and loved. She showed me what it's like to stand an arms length from love and then watch it walk away. She's so beautiful, but never cocky. Everything I had longed for was never really mine. I know I'm capable of picking up the pieces of my shattered self, but I can't seem to put them back together quite right.
For this I will spend eternity "Loving From The Shadows"
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He's my best friend. He's also the perfect guy. Gorgeous yet somehow he stays humble. A genius yet he still manages not to sound condescending. He holds the doors and says the right thing. He listens and comforts. He's flawless in every way imaginable.
Maybe that's why I can't have him.
I've never allowed myself to think of him that way because he's just too good to be true. Maybe that's why I fell for Mike... because he's not perfect. He seems more real.
Obviously I know nothing about real.
I guess as penance for my mistakes I will spend eternity "Loving From The Shadows."

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