I wish, oh how I wish
that I could open up your heart.
I want to get to know you
but that’s the hardest part.
I know you from the outside,
your voice I recognize.
But the real you I’m looking for
is always in disguise.
Sometimes looking into your eyes
I can read what’s on your mind.
But then you turn, you look away,
afraid of what I’ll find.
I want to know what makes you tick,
what makes you run away.
I’d like to understand you,
there just seems no easy way.
My empty heart beats for you,
it wants us to be one.
It wants to heal the scars you bear,
to have the knots undone.
The seconds move, the hours wane,
and still you turn from me.
Still I wait, I keep you close,
awaiting what may be.
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polysyllabic profundities 
I’m trying to decide if I’m the one waiting or the one turning away. Possibly both. 🙂 Well done!
Thank you. I actually wrote this years ago when I was in college and just found it again!
You wrote this in college? So you’ve always had incredible talent.
Thanks for that! 🙂
I absolutely loved this poem! Well done! 🙂
Thank you – I’m glad you liked it!
I agree entirely with what ‘heylookawriterfellow’ said! Incredible talent and such insight for a college student too 🙂
Thank you very much. 🙂
Nice poem! Perfect description of trying to find and bond with the real person in front of us.
Thanks Janna!