WALLS

Standing just inside your walls

Hoping you will let this indiscretion go

I step forward and I feel hands pushing me away

I hear words, cold to my ears

I see your expression and it is granite to my heart

I am too close and you need some distance

I can't say you didn't warn me

I look in the mirror

I see the same granite expression reflected back at me

Feel the coldness rising within my own skin

Distance from myself - self-preservation - 

Where only you remain

You were the lesson I learned when I tried to be open

And now I stand outside the walls

Ignoring invitations to proceed

Now I know better

I saw the other side