Does it work?
This facade that I hold before you
staring blankly ahead
This indifference I exude
as I flirt and smile

and pretend not to care.

Does it work?
pretending that you don’t want
the one thing
your heart desires most?
I wish it didn’t

work so well.

If only we didn’t care, 
But shared what we really thought
Maybe then, things would be different
Confusion would die to clarity
and whether it moved us together
or farther away
at least we’d see
my true feelings toward you
and yours toward me
and maybe then we’d stop pretending.

(c) me 2007