Note to an Un-requited Love

I noticed you on the first day

of my shitty college life. Had

that look of infinite

Depression

on your face

it was sight familiar to my

Mirror.

But then you stopped coming back

to this decrepit palace of shattered

Hopes and unforgiven

Dreams.

I searched and longed for a

Glimpse of your face

but none of the others

had

that Look.

Until the day you sat

beside me and gave your viva-voce

exam in Physics.

It was refreshing to hear someone

tell a barefaced lie to the

Professor.

I could hardly control

my dark Laughter.

During the 3rd semester

you contacted me out of the blue

for some wretched project

we had to collaborate on.

As time passes

my feelings get more inexplicable

and entangled.

I have certain circumstances -

my fucked-up life

intense hatred for this city of the dead

and my pathetic ego bruised irrevocably

over and over again.

Or else I’d straight up gone and confessed

to you the words which I dread to death -

“I like you.”