Effort

I'm stuck in an effort to conclude that I will not be understood,

while you stand beside me,

knowing you never will be.

we are both the same,

we have the same problem,

but neither of us know it

we internalize that it is special to us and if I only knew, if you only knew

so tell me

but you can't just as I can't

and so we do our best to not make eye contact