Admiring you, It’s true <br />I think you’re beautiful, I do <br />everything you are <br />I have loved from afar <br />And, now I want to get closer to you <br /> <br />I want to sit in the chair next to you <br />Sipping coffee and eating a scone <br />Making laughter in conversation <br />And, never again feel alone <br /> <br />But, I have no courage for introduction <br />No stories to amuse <br />No taste for drinking coffee <br />And, nothing else to lose <br />Only the strength of my resolve for you <br /> <br />I see the line, I dare not cross <br />petrified in word suffocation <br />a self rejection before it happens <br />I prepare myself for <br />the dissolution of my heart <br /> <br />I take my first step and I start …<br /><br />Marcus McKinley<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/crush-96/