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Patient
by Richard Gary Roane

When I see you walk close to me, my heart lets out a deep beat. 
It knows what I feel, and how I felt when I first saw you. 
My mind fills with pictures of you when you are smiling and laughing.
I smile at the thought of you being happy. 
I should have taken the chance to get to know you better, but I stumbled. 
I know now I have lost my chance. 
I know the one who has stolen your heart makes you happy. 
I want to make you happier. 
I wrote an undiscovered letter of confession to you. 
It said how I felt at the time I met you. 
I missed another chance. 
When I see you and your boyfriend in my mind, I become jealous. 
I see images of him leaving you, you become sad.
I push the thoughts out of my head, you become happy again. 
I want to make you happy, I have no more chances. 
A friend of yours gives me advice, I want to be patient, 
but I can't get the pictures of you out of my head. 
It's driving me crazy seeing you with your boyfriend. 
At the icehouse, I was going to tell you how I felt about you. 
I missed that chance. I never have a chance to be with you, 
where I am comfortable enough to talk to you. 
There is always a few unwanted presences. 
I am happy when I get to talk to you. 
I don't know if you know how I feel about you. 
I try to make it obvious to take away from the nervousness. 
I am not trying to be pushy, I know you have a boyfriend, 
you are with him, I can't change that. 
I want to change that, but I am not that kind of person. 
When I had the chance, I was too shy and nervous to talk to you. 
At the camp, I really wanted to talk to you. 
I felt I was ugly and both you and your friends liked Matt. 
I gave up until I tried to talk to Dara about it. 
She gave me some advice, but I chickened out. 
Oh how I wished I had taken her advice at the time. 
We go out in our group to have some fun, we tell jokes and laugh. 
I don't know if you thought I was a jerk. 
We get to our destination, we play the game, and have fun. 
I see you sitting, you are beautiful. 
I want to make eye contact, but I look away. 
I am afraid you might think I am staring. 
You sit next to me, I stop talking.
I want the moment to last for ever more. 
You smile, and your eyes shine, you just made my world stop. 
I want to let you know how I feel. 
Even with the confidence I have, I am unable to tell you. 
I am afraid of what you might say, of what I might mess up, 
of what I have just done. I give up. 
I take a chance, by getting in your car. I wanted to talk to you. 
You mistake my reasons for talking about David. 
Your cousin realizes the situation. 
I love to hear you talk, your voice makes me happy. 
When you called Kenny's house at night, I was tired, 
but you made me ready to rip the phone from his hands, so I could talk to you. 
This confession is not meant to make you believe I am obsessed, 
but to show you how I really feel about you. 
You are not mine to take.
I see us together, images are shattered by the voice of your loved one. 
I set down the pen, realizing, this will change nothing, 
I am forever without you. 
I am still patient.
        
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Poem ID: 42127   Poem Posted: 8/5/2000
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