Distant

Will you always be like him

So very far from me

Hoping for my love

As I hoped for his

A love which was so silent

And undemonstrative

Seemingly impossible to express

Am I doomed to always be the one

Who feels this straight jacket

Limit the heart of love within me

Or is it just that I am

Too insecure to truly love

With the abandon

That others do

I see a world that so often is

So many steps away from me

As on the periphery I falter

With all of these inner thoughts

Of inadequacy

So impossible to share

And yet I try

I keep reaching towards you

Even when others say

You are not real

But how can they say

How can they know

The deeper truth of us

And so it is that lately

I have learned to remain more silent

To keep my own counsel

For only some can see the truth of your heart

Only some can hold the truth of love

And honour its preciousness

While not allowing skepticism and doubt

To burn it to ashes

In their hands