if our fingers brushed together and you pressed yours to mine so accidentally-on-purpose they gently intertwined and i looked at you and you looked at me and we smiled i think maybe everything would be just fine.
The lonliest people push away arms that care they kick at gifts of comfort as if the lonliness itself were a grey woollen blanket wrapped tight around themselves protection against feeling anything at all except lonliness because that would make the blanket fall and leave them cold naked in the light and vulnerable to vicious attacks of kindness