Outstanding Frank, as all of your work is! Unrequited love is the most poetic, and it keeps us poets and writers busy. Nothing is quite so outstanding as "what might have been"!
This is so true. I almost cried when I read this. Love is never as true as when it can't happen... love that is meant to be yet can never be is always the sweetest. You have hit a chord. This is a novel idea, yet it makes so much sense. I never would've thought to put it into words like that but the minute you wrote it it was crystal clear. Sorry this isn't really a critique! Thank you for writing this.