For A Love Never Realised Poem by Mathew Lewis

Why must I love where love can not prosper?
Why must I hope where hope can not grow?
What is the reason for all of these feelings
Giving rise to the things that no one can know?
The worst of my heart is bound in my head,
And I wish above all these feelings were dead,
But the sun still will rise and set just the same,
As it chases the moon in a piteous game.
Where then can I harbor villainous thoughts?
If light will be cast on a life that is gaunt,
I sit and I wait for the feelings of pain
To die in myself so I may be happy again.
And cruel is the fact that the pain I feel
Is caused by a love that I was sure was so real.
Farewell then hope you can not stay here,
You can exit my heart through one lonely tear,
Then never again shall I let myself cry,
Because hopefully soon there’ll be glass in my eyes.