Unrequited

If I be myself

He will see me

If he doesn't

Let him go

If I want to be loved

for who I am

I have to be willing

to be real

More often

than I am safe.

More than I am politically correct

More than I am accommodating

More than I am what another wants

More often than these

I have to Be my Truth

Only then

Will what's mine come to me

To discern when he has

I have to be more concerned

with whether I like him

than I am

with wanting him to like me.

-self love speaks