Your eyes meeting mine were tender

Your arms holding mine were safe

Your “goodnight” made my heart flutter

But I hesitated

Was I scared to be too eager?

Was I scared to be too plain?

Why did I ever think

the truth was something to be tamed?

Now I know this silence well

It was never at all your fault

You came too close to me

and that made me afraid

I should have opened my heart for you

You’d already had it in your hand

But it was a sealed fortress that not even

I could navigate

I only wish

I had the key.