I’ve watched from afar, admired your ways,

Known with a certainty, stuck in a craze

On paper it’s perfect, our lives intertwine

Two spirits, one soul: a predestined design

Both athletic nerds, intelligent things

Obsessed with a story, entranced by some rings

A pet you can catch, a ball to be kicked

The cobalt and claret, a yellow mouse picked

But it’s more than our hobbies, our linked families

It’s more than our shared, undesired disease

Your brain thinks like mine, your wit sharpens too

My conclusions and verdicts deduce like yours do

You know what it’s like to feel trapped in your mind

A slave to your body, a visionary left blind

Your compassion a weapon wielded never by you

Responsibility for all, and for all not a clue

A groomsman forever and never a bride

Unaided but destined to always provide

Alive with a knowledge no others can grasp

Mundane to their cores, no wisdom to clasp

We want the same things, our goals all align

Though we differ in how we divine the Divine

But I think we’d be great, and I know you’d find love

What’s more, though, a partnership we’d both be proud of

Raising together the ones all alone

Giving them more than their past broken home

Changing together through eons of time

Making each second superbly sublime

A love tale for ages, the greatest of all

The stuff saved for legends only starved men recall

Too bad I’m a coward, too scared I will bleed

I won’t ever work up the courage I need

To tell you my feelings, to ask for a chance

If bravery’s a ballroom, I don’t know the dance

Our potential’s a grand yacht that’s just left to drift

Sinking slowly beneath the deadweight of what-ifs

I wish I could show you how great we would be

But what could have been us, will only ever be me