Can’t you see?

Can’t you see?

I’m bursting at the seams

trying to contain all that

I feel for you. For once,

I want you to shut up.

I want you to stop talking,

and start listening to

the increasing unrest

of the unsaid words that

is brimming inside of me.

For once, I want you

to sit up and take notice.

I want you to be amazed

astonished spellbound by

all that I am.

I want your jaw to drop as

you unwittingly discover

strange new shores in

a world that you thought

was familiar. I want you to

stutter and stumble and fall

and never get up.

For once, I want you to

walk in my shoes.

Can’t you see?