Understood

She watches me
When she thinks I’m not looking
Making my heart race
As I watch her right back
From the corner of my eye
Unobservedly

She touches me
And she pretends it means nothing
With her guarded face
But her eyes betray her
And I am touched
Unwillingly

She smiles at me
And only me
And she thinks
I do not see what she does
But I fully understand
And I smile back
Unknowingly

She talks to me
Light bury her hidden meanings
That I hear
And return them in a similar fashion
Humoring her
Unhappily

She catches me
Each time I fall
Raisng me back up to her pedestal
The same one I place her upon
And she smiles
And I fall again
And I like it

Bardic
January, 1998