Unreciprocated Feelings

The dull pang in my heart aches ever so slightly.

My heart thuds in my chest almost too painfully, rattling my ribcage and jumps up to my throat.

My breath now stuck in my throat suffocates me endlessly as I try to force the lump back down.

I can't breathe.

These lips that you kissed are now chapped and quivering.

The eyes that used to look at you longingly from afar are now watery and closed to look away.

My skin still tingles where you touched and my cheeks are sticky and wet.

I want to sprint away but I'm rooted on the spot, staring as you embrace the stranger and hoping you turn towards me.

But this longing for you to leave her and look at me cannot be returned, and I am left alone with all these thoughts.

Ah, the pain.

The pain of the bittersweet unrequited love.