Unrequited Love

I sit and stare
It hurts a little but that’s okay
I still have a chance

He will love me,
He just doesn’t know it yet.
Even though he is kissing somebody else
It is okay

I want to him to see me
So I give him my eyes.
He takes them
He uses them to stare at someone else
It is all I can see

I want him to create something beautiful
Something of himself
So I give him my right hand
He takes it
He touches someone else with it

I want him to love deeply
So he can someday love me too
I give him my heart
He laughs, and says
“I do not want something I can’t use”

It isn’t fair, I barely cross his mind
But he is all I think about
I have never been more serious about a person
But he only laughs at me
He has carved his name on my chest
But does not know he ever left a mark
It is infected, consuming my skin
I must cut them out,
The parts he unknowingly took

I look ugly now
I have rotted away,
Clinging to an unfinished love

I never understood
Because he only ever smiled
The same smile he showed everyone
He had already showed me that I was no different

I just hope no one else will see
The deserving tattoo imprinted on my back
The ink and blood tracing the name that he gave me
Loveless