Love Poem: I Told My Friend I Understood
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Written by: Alexander Mac

I Told My Friend I Understood

A friend said
Her heart was hurting
Because her love had never met her
And stood far away 
On a stage she couldn't share 
Oh it hurt

And I couldn't tell her
How much worse it is
To know your love
And your love to not know
That every second they are near
It hurts

To know them deeply
Collecting secrets and facts 
That make you love them more

Sitting beside them and
Hearing a heartbeat you wish to share
Hearing all the words but the ones you want most

I couldn't tell my friend that my heart breaks 
More for myself than it does for her
More because of my love
And less because of hers
And my heart does break

Each day I look in his eyes
And I see the possibility of us
As I see him blindly overlooking it
And another piece of my heart falls
And I know he will step over it when he leaves

Because it is a hundred times harder 
To be so close and then lose
Than to lose before you are close