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If only you knew

If only you knew 
How, like a wallflower, I have wished for you.

Too shy to lift my eyes to yours.
Your wrists. Your shoulder.
I lean on you to steady me,
Wobbling above,
I wish we were in love.

Maybe it's best that I stay away
But does she write you poems like this?

Sometimes you are just a name 
and a time zone
And I wonder
Are you counting backwards 
eight hours as I do forwards?

Expecting to see you
 behind the wheel of every red car I see 
but you are not the only person who drives a red car. 

I wished for you
 when I tossed my penny in the fountain
And I hummed your song on the train home.





Copyright © Annabelle Bentley

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