"Pain and Torture"

This torture and pain I know I must endure,
Though I assure you it is not easy.
My feelings I have admitted in truth,
Confessed for I respect you nonetheless
But nonetheless the pain and torture
Of knowing the love of yours I will not hold
Is agony unto mine own mind and heart.
I am ready to treat you to the world,
But I know it is not only you,
The world I would have to treat to
For your love is devoted to a daughter as beautiful as you
This pain and torture is the fault of timing alone – nothing more.
Truly there is no greater pain than
Living with feelings of someone you cannot have.
But this pain and torture I shall endure for it is a friend you say you need.
I do not expect you to wait, and neither will I
But know that I will be here for you night and day.