Unrequited love

I am cramped in a small room of people.

But you’re the only one that reflects in my eyes.

Suddenly, your eyes lock with mine                                                                     

in a fleeting moment that felt like eternity.                                                     

Those precious seconds, frozen forever.                                                           

The sounds of a fluttering heartbeat is deafening in this lonely silence.           

The seducer that is lust urges me to touch your smooth skin, but the chains of reasoning

forces me back, screaming the consequences in my pain wrenched face.                                                                                                                  

Tears of frustrated emotion that escaped from my heart roll down my cheeks, tasting of bitter truths that I couldn’t bare to swallow like sour medicine.

This is an unrequited love, a bereavement of the soul.

You look away.

Time flows normally again.