One-Sided Love

How do you give solace to a girl with a broken heart when your heart has not yet mended from her falling in love with him? How do you answer her questions for advice when you know the best advice to give further damages your chance? How do you lend a shoulder for her to cry on when your entire body aches to embrace her lovingly? How do you listen to her plans for making up when you wish your friendship could be replaced by romance? Silently, you suffer the torture of one-sided love. Stoically, you pretend to be happy as her friend. Selflessly, you let her go when you desperately want her to stay. Stupidly, you swallow those three words you want to say. You try convincing yourself you are happy by her happiness, even though her happiness with another makes you depressingly sad. You wear the mask of a brother-like relative even though the jealously is driving you mad. To leave her far behind would mean your freedom and your end. Never to know her as a lover, you will suffer lonely as a friend.