Your silence
Hides from me
All that I want to see
All that I want to know
You keep me
Pushed away from the deepest parts of you
That I want to touch
And I want to kiss
Don't you know
I don't want to hurt you?
I took you in my arms
And tried to take you in my heart
But you pushed me away
Again
With your arms that stayed
At your sides when I embraced you
And the silence that killed even me
As I looked deep into the eyes
That wouldn't let me in.
January 23, 2003