“you”
please, i ask
that you do not give me
a single smile
or heartfelt hello
i do not want nor
do i need either
or any variation
of such
they will only cause
too
many
thoughts
and
hours
wasted
on yet another
hopeless endeavor
of who i wish i could be
for yet another
“you”
so do not smile
or even so much as
blink in my direction
for as my mind wanders,
so will “you”
a.wake













