Painful Love

It would hurt too much to admit aloud that I love you

So I resort to love poems and silent longing

Yet I still can't get over the pain this love has put me in

I can barely make it through a day,

Let alone a week, without crying or feeling the need to cry

Because of how overwhelming this heartbreak is

I say hello to you, and you reply with your own greeting

But the all-too-familiar pain wriggles its way out

I tried to lock it away in a dark corner of my brain

But it makes its way out nevertheless