Jump

We started this, & I am cold to you.

I didn’t know I would be.

I told you, Like this I cannot love.

You were happy with it.

Jump with me, you say.

We do.

But as we fall together,

You begin to notice, that I am distant.

There is a part of me that does not smile.

Not for you.

I didn’t think I could be like this.

I didn’t think you’d notice

& if you did,

I didn’t think you’d care.

But you tell me, You’re cold.

And I begin wonder if you do.

Still we fall together

But now I reach out to you,

Still half in, yet now half out

Of the cold,

And I start to realize,

You’re like that too.

I’m not sure we can change

Because it was never about the fall.

It was the jump.