User:Slyfordtrabbit/Cat and Rabbit

Cat and Rabbit

We don’t hold hands when we go into town.

Oh, no, Never that close

Always on opposite sides of the street

Always at eye’s length.

You smile

And I smile—

we’re smiling actors in a play

we didn’t want to perform.

But you and me are we

And these people can’t see

What it means to be

Really, truly free

Until

We

Meet.

Silence.

You brush my shoulder.

You smell like the jasmine perfume

I gave you for our anniversary.

Our eyes meet and

the world stops to stare.

Not today, you whisper, and we’re

Apart

Once more.