Love Poem: Unrequited Love
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Written by: Anjali Gandhi

Unrequited Love

Love that finds no means to return 
Stays stuck in a void
Of what if’s and what nots
It makes a loop of an unending cycle 
Only to be broken and lay 
Spattered 
No guilt, no promises 
Love that only goes on one path 
Is forgotten to all others
But oneself
It carries the faith 
Of a thousand loyal devotees
For a god made of cold stone
Staring down on those at his feet 
You only a speck in a pile of dust 
Love only given
Is a story of nightmares
Tugged into bed of the darkest nights
With tears of smoke 
And smiles of glass
No trace of what had stayed 
And what hadn’t 
It is the utter helplessness
And the strength 
To do what one must 
To live with a burden 
Worthy of skies
While not pouring out 
The thunder and the cries.