Connotation

do you look at me and think butterflies


do you look at me and think rosy cheeks


do you look at me and think maybe


do you look at me and think comfort


do you look at me and think hands


do you look at me and think understanding


do you look at me and think tea


do you look at me and think future


do you look at me and think love

do you look at me and think possibility

do you look at me and think nausea


do you look at me and think sinking hearts


do you look at me and think no


do you look at me and think awkward


do you look at me and think secret


do you look at me and think silence


do you look at me and think metaphor


do you look at me and think past


do you look at me and think bitter


do you look at me and think mistake

you look at me and say nothing

you don’t look at me
at all.

Oh, but I know you can think.


2011