Oblivious - a poem about a silly boy

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I see you over there,

running nervous fingers through your hair

Stealing glances, suspecting that I am unaware

But I see you

I do see you, yet I pretend that I don't

I look down at my shoes and pick something off of my clothes,

I keep my head down, wondering what you will think of me

When I am wrinkled and grey and probably seventy-three

Of course, I am thinking that we could be —

Something?

In the future when we are ready

Maybe, before we are seventy?

But for right now,

I see you looking at me

When will you come over here and say hello

Until you do, we will never know

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