Unrequited

Unrequited

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”
Mere words; pale echoes from the past that fail
and captures not the sweetest song of praise
that hides in silence ‘neath a lover’s veil.

We started off as friends but you moved on;
you never saw the love that slowly grew.
Had I the courage – but that time is gone,
fading before the sun like morning dew.

To bare my heart is asking for more pain
than one can bear and still stand on his feet.
In silent suffering, I shall remain
apart and live a life that’s incomplete.

It’s said that time heals all. For this, I pray.
I’ll hold you in my heart until that day.

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Form: English (Shakespearean) Sonnet ~ consists of fourteen lines written in iambic pentameter, a pattern in which an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable five times. The rhyme scheme in a Shakespearean sonnet is a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g; the last two lines are a rhyming couplet.

unrequited ~ not returned or reciprocated