i want to see you

i once believed that i had restraint.

stood atop an elevated plot of land,
an acre owned in my name
and laughed at the animals grazing
below me.

came so easily, like second nature
did the ability for my lips
to curl around the letters
"n" and "o".

i see mirrored before me
a twin of my own kind
soggy food trapped beneath
soggier fingernails.

equivalent aversions; similar cynicisms.

simultaneous loneliness

with passion.

Cute quirks a cause for kiss-
ing

but regret for a
lack-there-of.

like paper through a shredder
goes my thin frame
at the sight of you, so close
across the room,
untouchable.