Sunset

I looked over
Across the hall,
Caught her eyes,
And smiled
She smiled back
And that,
Made my day.
Later that day,
I approached her
And told her
That I loved her.
"Eww you dyke!"
She ran away
Leaving me alone
Crying in the dark.
The next day,
All eyes turned
When I walked in.
Girls ran away
From me,
Guys laughed at me.
My friends, they
Stopped talking to me.
The news spread.
I cried.
No one cared.
I ran home.
My parents shunned me,
I locked myself up
In my room,
The same room,
Where I spent years
Hiding a part of me
From the world.
Then I realised,
That I could not
Live like this anymore.
Hiding, scared, lonely,
In hope of
A better tomorrow.
The world hated me,
I was a liability.
I got up, and
Walked to the terrace,
Stood at the edge,
And waited-
I waited for the tears,
A constant companion
In my wasted life.
I waited for
the flashbacks,
The memories,
All the happy moments,
To come flooding by,
To make me
Think twice about
Ending my life.
I waited.....
But nothing happened
And that's when
I realised that
This is how
It ought to be.
And I jumped