Eyes for You Only

For the first six months of our friendship, you had a boyfriend. During that time, I never intended to sabotage your relationship. Whether or not you stayed with him, whatever the cost to me, I genuinely wanted you to be happy. However that happiness was attained by you, I was prepared to accept it.

In those days, I only had eyes for you.

For the next six months, we rarely spoke. You instructed me to separate myself from you. And despite my personal objections, I respected and obeyed your wishes. I even waited months for an explanation, and I never once urged you to provide me one before you were ready to do so. Because I loved you, I chose to place your needs above my own.

And the whole time, I only had eyes for you.

Now, we've been talking regularly for three weeks. And even after breaching my trust and breaking my heart, I forgave you and welcomed you back into my life with open arms. And although I compelled myself to bury my feelings, in order to cope with the loss, I never allowed those emotions to entirely dissipate.

Even still, I only have eyes for you.

In the meantime, you've gotten romantically involved with multiple guys and invited dozens more to seduce you. And you don't even take a moment to consider me, not even once? Will you at least tell me why? I feel inadequate and hopeless.

Anyway, I only have eyes for you.