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By Ali Date: 2002 Feb 16 Comment on this Work [[2002.02.16.18.48.558]] |
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I just want to scream outloud, tell the world how I feel But I won't, or maybe I just can't But how can I stand here wearing normalcy as a mask? Seeing what is right in front of me, and seeing what is not Looking past the obvious to find the hidden meanings But perhaps...perhaps there are none to be found I look with eyes that long to see, and they have seen much Yet it is not enough, somehow And I wonder why that is... I wait in the shadows, only to find the light Christened by the starlight, blanketed by the moon I find the sun has no reflection as I stare into your eyes You are here and I am here We are both nowhere and everywhere, together Strange--how you are so close to me right now A heartbeat away, but I do not reach out my hand I do not touch your face,or run my fingers through your hair And I feel a fault of mine has found its way into this room Suddenly it's as if the air has gone away, as if by magick But still I breath and still you breath, side by side And then I realized something that didn't occur to me before You're here too, right beside me, living, breathing Your hands, they're at your sides-- Not reaching out to me, not even willing to ask the question Oh, I see what's running through your mind, I know, I know But there are lines, reasons, practicalities, technicalities And neither of us can look eachother in the eye And I wonder if you know that I'm blushing right now Hiding behind my hair, like I always do when I'm nervous I still have the urge to just scream, to scream outloud... |