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For my heart belongs to you. For my entire being belongs to you.
My heart and body bleeds for your never coming return. I should hate you. And yet I can't. Is this the curse you've placed on me, my sapphire?
I can't help but look at your dazzling shine that competes with the sun. For I wish for your laugh and smile, never your love.
Would it be selfish to have wanted you to stay?
Would it be selfish to have wanted you to run?
Would it be selfish to have wanted you to love me?
May my selfishness never come to light.
So, how is it that I find myself clinging to your visage? Even in death, I find you laying at my side.
Why is it that my illusion of you is crying?
"Oh please, please don't die. Don't leave me too..." I can hear you weep, clutching me like a dying rose.
Oh my sweet, please don't cry. I don't want you to cry over me.
You leaving me, a sacrifice I know must have been hard for you, for you are kind. Too kind for this world.
"Don't die, my aquamarine." I managed to choke out.
Perhaps it was cruel of me to forsake her with the curse of living but, I can't allow her to die for me. She's that kind of person, after all. Unable to live without the people she loves, she would die to her own hubris.
For it is in her nature to die for those she loves. As she would die for me, her first love.
And as silly as it may sound but we both knew the truth. That I love her but wouldn't allow myself to do so freely so, she too, hid her feelings to protect me, as I protected her.
So, with the remainder of my life that I have left,
"I love you."