Unrequited Love

Unrequited Love

Floating with a grace unseen or heard,
By any other senses
Though she soars like a bird.
Her beauty surpassing all natural states,
Breaking down all barriers, fences and gates.

She flies in the cosmos, with comets and stars,
And dances at peace,
With the mystery of Mars.
A smile, when shown, can light up the dark,
Drown out any halo, and have angels sing ‘hark!’.

Then, when that smiles directed at me,
Like a half-drunken sailor,
I fall shake and quiver, right down to the knee.
There’s a sensation inside, flowing just from one glance,
That’s enough to send me off at a jig and a prance.

Just to hold you within my warming embrace,
Would shoot me straight up,
To join you in space.
With you in the vacuum, like a breath of fresh air,
I could soar with you, dance with you, stroke your long golden hair.

And yet, here I am, scrawny, naked on Earth,
The dance never started,
It ended at birth.
My flowing adoration, that pours straight from my heart,
Is scooped up, and flung back, in the form of a dart.

It penetrates, straight through, ripping and burning,
My heart in all places,
Till the wheels stop turning.
I can't understand it, how could feelings so strong,
Be forced down and trampled, till they only feel wrong?

I am told there’s no hope, and asked why I keep yearning,
For love that’s not there.
I guess there’s just no hope for learning.
But now I don’t know why I keep up the fight,
To find that last spark, to ignite loves lost light.