With rejection comes loneliness
With loneliness comes despair
With despair comes grief
With grief comes a solitary tear

Relationships are meaningless with only one
Dreams never dreamt can never come true
Romance never shared is romance undone
Love never returned is love left eschew

Heartache begins when love has ended
Heartache turns a dream into a yearning
Heartache yearns for a heart to be mended
Heartache longs for a love still burning

Hopelessness becomes the very last scene
A knowing that love lost can never be found
A vision of love surrenders its final beams
As they slowly bring the (final) curtain down
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“Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
(1809-1892)