Villainized

Loving For All the Wrong Reasons

In the quiet corners of a crowded room

two hearts pulse

but the rhythm is offbeat

a dance without a partner

steps taken in shadows

echoes of laughter that never quite touch

We share the same air

but it hangs heavy

like a fog that wraps around us

clinging

yet never warming

Your eyes

a distant shore

where waves crash but never reach the sand

I stand on the precipice

watching, waiting

for a tide that will never come

Words exchange like currency

devalued

each syllable a ghost

filling the silence

but never bridging the chasm

those unspoken longings

the dreams scattered like fallen leaves

beneath our feet

crunching under the weight of what could be

I trace the outlines of your smile

a map to a place I can't find

and in the spaces between us

the air thickens

a wall of unacknowledged desire

where love is a flickering flame

too shy to reveal itself

We are two ships passing

navigating the same starless sky

each constellation a memory

each moment a wish ungranted

and I wonder

in this loveless love

are we merely shadows

or do we cast light

illuminating a path

only we can see