Affection for you I can't undo, Adhered to you like a tattoo. I'm a substitute, I know. Hard for me to let-go. Painful to dry the ink you dipped into.
Psychiatrist Eric Berne states in his book *** in Human Loving that "Some say that one-sided love is better than none, but like half a loaf of bread, it is likely to grow hard and moldy sooner."