Almost Mine

I am not unsure

Of what I feel

Only

Of where to place it

It lingers

Like morning

Through an open window

Resting on me

Softly warming

What I thought

Had settled

But never staying

Long enough

To belong

You are

Easy as breath

Something I don’t notice

Until you’re gone

And then

Everything feels

Just a little heavier

There is something

Between us

Like a tide

It finds me

Without asking

Pulls me closer

And then returns

To where it must

Leaving behind

The feeling

Of having been near

I don’t name it

I wouldn’t know

What to call Something

That lives

In the spaces

Between your words

Between your pauses

And what you take back

I feel it

In the way

You look at me

Like you see me

And then

Like you remember

You shouldn’t

I do not reach

Not because

I don’t want to

But because I understand

Some things

Are not meant

To be held

Only Felt

So I stay

In the quiet

You leave behind

In the space

That is never empty

Just unclaimed

And I watch

How you return

Without arriving

How you stay

Without staying

And still

Something in me

Moves toward you

Without moving at all

And somehow

That is enough

Like reflections on water

Shimmering

Just out of reach

Something I can see

But never gather

Something that exist

As long as I don’t try

To make it mine

And still

I stand here

Letting it touch me

Learning

The shape of a feeling

That asks for nothing

And gives everything

Quietly

Without promise

Without future

Without a name

Just this

And me

Standing in it

Until it fades

Like the end of a day

Soft

Certain

And gone