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She who is always in my thoughts prefers
Another man, and does not think of me.
Yet he seeks for another's love, not hers;
And some poor girl is grieving for my sake.
Why then, the devil take
Both her and him; and love; and her; and me.

Bhartrihari - 6th/7th Century Sanskrit poet

Found via poemsdaily

...The centuries pass, and nothing changes; compare with this excerpt from 1824, from a Russian play:

"What people they are in these parts!
She runs to him, and he to me,
And I...only I am deathly afraid of love,
But how could I not love the kitchen-hand Petrusha?"