The Human Grinch

The longer you avoid me 
The larger this tumor grows. 
I can feel it crushing my brain, 
Draining my soul of the spell once cast. 
I no longer see you, not even on the bus, 
The only place you could have seen me. 
Without your love I feel my heart shrinking, 
Turning green like the hater of Whoville, 
Exiled from happiness for being different. 
The most pretty girl in his class 
Secretly liked him, the way I wonder 
If you secretly like me, but can't show it, 
For it being too grave a sin to want a beast. 
I've done my best to smile, to match your glow, 
But the edges of my mouth only curdle, 
Revealing something malicious, hideous enough 
To riddle you with indecision, timidly raising 
Those flames I'd fanned with your fear. 
In the end he got the girl, won the town over, 
Redeemed himself with kindness and regret. 
In the real world, things like that don't happen,  
Love is less merciful, your smiles more deadly.