I Wish You Were Mine

I Wish You Were Mine

I watch you laughing from over the room

Bright as the first day of flowers in bloom

Every small movement pulls hard at my chest

Waking old longing that will not rest

You speak my name and the whole world shifts

Simple soft moments becoming gifts

Still you belong somewhere far from me

Close enough touching yet never to be

I wish you were mine on cold winter nights

Mine in the mornings soft covered in light

Mine when the whole world grows cruel and unfair

Someone to reach for and know you are there

Instead I keep silence stitched into skin

Hiding the ache that keeps growing within

Smiling politely while swallowing pain

Watching your fingers entwine once again

Perhaps in another strange version of time

Your lonely heartbeat would answer mine

Perhaps we would walk hand in hand in the rain

Instead of pretending we feel nothing again

Love can be beautiful cruel and absurd

Built from the absence of unspoken words

Some feelings bloom knowing fully they must

Never become more than sorrow and dust

Still late at night when the dark settles thin

I imagine your breathing somewhere near skin

One impossible wish circling through

That somehow one day I might belong too

Marie381UkWriter