Could we start over
Could we try again
In another universe
One where your bitter heart
Beat contently
In the rhythm of my own
One where you look at me
The same way I look at you every day
Catatonically watching your every move
The tenderness in my eyes
Without the numbness of yours
Looking back with aversion
A stare so lifeless
But so beautiful
Watching your eyes trace the room
And wander off
Hoping that I was in more than the peripheral
Just this once
One where you noticed me
Down the hallway
Lost in the thought of you
More than just brushing past each other
With nothing more
Then the breeze drifting towards me
The draft of the cold shoulder
So chilling
One where friends could be enough
Laughing together
Enjoying what little I could have
A familiar smile, yet so distant
In a universe where we were just rocks
On an infinite earth
Meaningless
Emotionless
But no less unlovable
One where we never saw each other
One where this never happened
One where I never dreamed of all the times
We could have been
In another universe
One where I never wrote this poem
Knowing you would never see it