I sit here next to you,

only needing to reach out my hand to touch you;

Wishing you would turn and look at me,

wanting only to be in your arms.

I have so many things to say, to tell you,

but I can’t find the words to express myself.

I wish I could take the hateful words back,

but I don’t know where to begin, or how to do it.

I hope you know how I truly feel about you,

I love you more than life: you’re my world;

I couldn’t face life without you,

not a second, not a minute, not a day.

I’m sorry I can’t be the woman, wife, you want and need,

I wish I could change me to be her.

So, I sit here next to you,

close enough to smell your scent,

arms aching to be around you,

but too far away to reach you.