RISE

Thanks for you bluntness and lack of candor in refuting your feelings for me.
Won't you just keep updating your profile so I can keep smiling?
My glimmer of hope is pretty much gone.
But you've made me discover one important thing:
Infatuation is caring for a person and needing love in return.
Love is caring for a person without need for reciprocity.
Regardless of whether you love me, know this:
I love you.
Keep looking at me?
Talking to me?
Thinking about me?
Teaching me?
Maybe one day I'll rise in your eyes.
And maybe I won't.
Whatever. I still love you.

the love letter collection
submitted 10:22 PM EST
Thursday, January 19, 2012