Unrequited Lovers

• Dane Harrison, Grade 12
• Poetry
• 2013

I conceal from you my yearnings
hoping to quell this unrelenting ache
with veiled care
and yet your warmth reaches for me
extending past the barriers,i have set
You want what you do not understand
ask for something you cannot comprehend
one night is not enough
to quench this thirst for you
one night is not enough.
why can't you see
that one night is all it would take
to make and break my world?
be fanatical with hopeless anticipations
of a next time that could never be
I conceal from you my yearnings
devoid of the passions and elation
only your skin, your feel, your taste can bestow me
I choose this life
until my heart and body finally comprehend
that you are not,
not will you ever be,
mine.