Sketch
Volume 65, Number 1
2000
Article 12
Unrequited Love
Karina Zidon∗
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Iowa State University
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Copyright 2000
by the authors. Sketch is produced by The Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress).
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Karina Zidon
Unrequited Love
O h , m y dearest
W h y m u s t you do this to me?
Every day, it's just the two of us,
You and me,
Alone,
In my room.
I talk to you,
1 whisper sweet words to you,
Words you refuse to accept.
I have tried every way I can think of
To get you to understand
H o w much you mean to me,
But I cannot get through to you.
W h y do you give me that blank face?
H o w can I understand what 1 am doing wrong
If you tell me nothing?
If I am lucky enough to get any response
You give me a stock answer,
Impersonal and incomprehensible.
Some days, I w o n d e r if we even speak the same language.
Don't you know h o w h a p p y I am
W h e n you are turned on?
A n d how I will try anything
If it will keep you that way?
Yet you ignore m y pleas,
You do n o t respond,
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Karina Zidon
Giving me no messages
But ones of failure.
A n d still, I try.
Begging you to help me,
Crying out to you,
Offering you my soul at 2 am
For just one favor from you.
D o you not see,
You are my lifeline,
My link to humanity.
W i t h o u t you, I am helpless.
W h y must you do this to us?
Which is blinder,
You who heeds me not,
O r me, who continues to seek your acceptance
Knowing I will never find it.
I will never understand
Either of us,
My dearest,
my computer.
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