Toss a stone on the hopscotch game
hoping to land on the right square.
For so long I've pined and wished for that special someone
And what stared back was only an endless road of limitless possibilities.
Did each square lead me closer to you?

I gazed in your direction,
but never caught your eye.
I breathe your smile and laughter,
I quake in your kindness and understanding;
Would you ever think of me this way, too?

I played along this pebbled ridden road,
I reasoned that my youth was the cause of my suffering.
My mind is trapped in chaos: ambition and goals, battling against desires and vices.
This young body and young heart shackles me
A vast universe exists within me.

Hidden beneath the youthful skin and wandering eyes
lives a person, a girl, becoming ever so slowly a woman.
A girl whose mind sees beyond her years, and yet
she still has a long way to go to balance her feelings.

An older man, guided by his own intuitions.
A man, still in many ways a boy.
Too coy to admit to feelings.
No shame, no insecurity to admit to mistakes, only apathy.

Boy-ish behavior isolates you from men.
A passionate spark now a swirling veil of smoke
Where your life kept you rooted,
mine lead me across seas and into many worlds.

We were drawn parallel to one another.
Our lips and skin touched, but our paths did not merge.
My pebble ridden road has one less stone.
And as we reached a fork in our respective roads:
we chose our own destinies.