I’ve always wanted to be liked.........

I’ve always wanted to be liked.

It grieved me that I was treated with indifference.

Left an orphan by fortune,

I wanted—like all orphans—to be the object of someone’s affection.

This need has always been a hunger that went unsatisfied,

and so thoroughly have I adapted to this inevitable hunger that I sometimes wonder if I really feel the need to eat.
Whatever be the case,

life pains me.