balance point
In some ways you are good for me
these turning twisting wider horizons
in which I can feel myself opening
broadening, stretching,
a cat just awoken.
And yet,
it pains me to be in your world and not of it
a phantom voice without sound, only words
adrift in maybes and if-onlys
hopes dashed
feelings bruised
hands bereft
of the warmth
of you.
My heart smiles and aches.
Two sides of the coin
that is loving you
from the sidelines
of your life.
They say perspective is everything.
Perhaps I feel I am haunting your margins
but in your world
I am writ large…
And yet,
there I am
falling into the trap
of maybe,
with steel jaws to crush me
if I dare hope.
I struggle in that vicious in-between.
I am too much and not enough.
You would think I could be enough, be just right —
And yet —
I am both and nothing.
If only I were to find the fulcrum,
that razor of a balance point,
I might finally
be your perfection
writ large.
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