I watch from the sidelines.

I promised myself one day
I would be in the middle of everyone

Inside of everyone

No one could resist

I could be fame
I could be fortune
I could be
Everyone’s dream

I could be
Important

I thought everyone could love me
But Love always leaves me at the edges

Looking in
Caring too much for a life

that cares naught for me

I care for the world

All the world

And people

I love as well as anyone
More than most

Love the First

Must choose between the twain
And leaves me behind

At the sidelines to see
Love’s happiness
Without me

Love the Second

Friendship is stronger
And Love not ready

I watched

As our friendship wasn’t
What he most cared for
Love was not true Love

And I watch from the sidelines
As a friend I need
Dissolved into an enemy
That was preferred to me

Love the Queen

Five years in the making
And doomed from the start

And the watcher
continued
For lack of else to do

For this Love needed me
Not at all

Love the Best

A chance I could take
Recovery from misery
Everything I dreamed
Loving me for me
Loving me for loving Love
The only chance I’ve had

And now dead
As I long to be
But cannot

There is nothing
Blankness

And I watch from the sidelines
As the love of all time
Flies past
Leaving me to my
memories
And the dust

Of the sidelines