The villain: A story of rejection

Have you ever told someone  
How you feel about them
Bare their all to them
And in that very moment  
Get rejected?  
 
Have you ever felt how
That moment wrenches
Your heart out
Leaving you in a state of silent pain?
 
Worst of all when the 'no'
Is not even clear enough
When that person still
Leaves you wondering  
If they really meant 'no'
 
That type of pain
Can consume you
From within
Slowly eating you up
As your thoughts get darker
 
When you realize that  
The person you wanted  
To give your love to
Just didn't give you  
The respect of clarity  
 
Now imagine being
The person on the other side
Knowing what that pain feels like
Knowing what you have gone through  
And here is someone  
declaring their love for you
 
You start thinking about
All the times you were with them
And you can't see any signs
Of you showing them affection  
You can't think of any time
You treated them differently  
You never tried to string them along
But here they are
 
Here they are bare
Vulnerable to what you will say
 
Right there you start to see
Yourself as a villain
 
'I promised I would never
Cause someone else
The type of hurt I went through'
 
But here you are
 
Too harsh and you can scar them
Too soft and they won't get the message
So you choose to respect them
Respect them enough to speak the truth  
 
Watching them frawn in front of you
Watching them hold baack the tears
Knowing that this was inevitable  
 
Realising that you have lived
Long enough to become a villain
In someone else's story
 
This person hasn't done anything wrong
In fact they are a good person
But Love in the romantic sense
Is just something you cannot give
 
So now you are sad
Saddened by the hurt  
you have brought
 
Knowing that the line
Has been crossed  
And you cannot be around them
That things will be awkward now
 
Worst of all, you're still looking for love
Yet you just rejected its invitation  
Because you don't want to take
Knowing that you'll never give
 
So you sit there
Feeling like a shitty person
Wondering if it isn't just easier
To be a bad person all the time
Because being good  
seems to cause pain
 
If not for you  
Then for those  
who fall for you