Nikki Giovanni, From “Poem (for EMA)”

depending your entire mood on another person is absolutely pathetic and i hate that i’m like this

maybe you meant a little too much to me, and maybe i meant a little too little to you

if you can’t handle me at my worst that’s understandable cause i can’t either

im so tired of just surviving and living day by day. will i ever get to be alive and live a life im actually proud of? or will i just endure this misery until i cant anymore?

That feeling of helplessness never really goes away does it, when you realize that the person you’d do anything for, doesn’t give a fuck about you. So you just sit there feeling so small and pathetic, wondering how something like this happens. How one person can mean the world to you and you are nothing for that person.

“I don’t want to be in love with you anymore. Every second I love you, is every second bereft of peace. Every second loving you is every second me struggling to breathe. I desperately need to fall out of love with you.”

— unrequited love