Fool's Errand

To love you as I do is a fool’s errand

For you will never hold for me the same passion

I know this and yet my heart cannot be swayed

To my logic I cannot hearken

I bite my tongue and keep from speaking

Knowing that the words I hold would frighten you away

Your friendship to me is important

Though I do long for you to know the truth each day

My silence is a prison of my own giving

I am unable to give myself to another

You are the one I have searched to find

To my hearts beat you are the drummer

I bide my time in unspoken hoping

Desiring for you to one day feel as I do

Knowing that day will most likely never come

This is my choice to tacitly love you