Dear someone i once knew 

I'd like to say I'm sorry. Not for never loving you in the same way you loved me, because we both know I had no control over that. It wasn't my fault, and it was hardly my fault that I felt as if I loved you in that way too, even though I didn't. I'm sorry for hurting you though. I'm sorry for letting it last even after I realised I didn't reciprocate your feelings. I'm sorry for acting like a massive fucking dick and hardly speaking to you after I ended it. I'm sorry for not thinking about how you felt. I'm sorry for burning you (in the metaphorical sense). And I still love you, and care for you, just not in the way you want me to, and I'm sorry that that doesn't seem to be enough in society's eyes, and, by extension, mine. Although it's subconscious, and although I have tried to rid myself of the notion that platonic love is lesser than romantic love, I was still influenced by society, as we all have been, and ridding myself of a belief instilled into me from a young age was hardly ever going to be easy. But I'm sorry nonetheless.

 sincerely, someone who was once yours