Not so lost love (acrostics)

It is cutting through me -
A searing pain of strength untold,
Of that love which went so wrong;
And I am now left in the cold.
My only sin was to be bold,
To tell to you my secret dear,
Of how I longed to hold you near.
So many months would then go by,
And so I, enveloped in rejection clear,
Could now be heard to sit and sigh.
Though now I yearn I'd never tried -
That thought ought been pushed aside - but
A foolishness unheard of far and wide,
Had lain it's grip upon me clear,
And possessed, thus I then drew near;
Shortly after, heart in two,
I reatreated, and speedily withdrew.
So sad an error I had made, when
Upon your hands I'd lain my heart,
Behold, for it you'd cared not,
And away to the side you'd cast it.
There it lay, but that love languished not,
It continued even now, it grew; it did not rot.
The day will dawn when I, from an aching heart shall be free,
And after all the mis'ry, my heart I'll give to someone else.

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If you take the first letter of the first line, the second letter of the second line,
the third letter of the third line, the fourth letter of the fourth line and so on,
all the way through the poem (obviously not including punctuation marks), it spells out a message.
The person in the poem cannot - indeed, could not - show their love for the person in question. Just like the message
hidden in the poetry, the person had hidden their feelings within themselves.
The hidden message is merely the hidden feelings translated into words. I'm sure most if not all, have been hurt at least
once by someone, for whatever reason. As usual, I've kept it gender free to allow the reader to really get inside the poem,
and see how it applies to themselves.
Being hurt just means you get upset: it doesn't necessarily mean you stop loving that person (of course, that's not always
true). This is reflected in the poem. Despite being hurt, despite the insistance that "I'll find someone else," we find
all too often that there never was anyone else. It should come as no surprise then, that the hidden message reads:
I still love you pure and clear.

Sadly, we never know what love looks like, until it walks away. But it isn't always too late.
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(c) D.J.