“Hidden Feelings”

There are feelings here that can’t be hidden any longer.

Forever trying to force them down, I find they’re growing stronger.

Is this a tentative friendship, or the clumsy lover’s dreams?

Am I experiencing love; is that what this confusion means?

I’m lonely when you’re gone, and resigned when you are here

because you’re always far away, even when you’re near.

I can’t tell where desire ends and where the lovin’ starts.

Is this what the fairy tales mean when one gives away one’s heart?

I want to touch you softly, to talk with you and to share.

I want to say a simple phrase, just “Darlin’ I do care.”

I'm not asking for eternity; I’m just hoping for one day.

For I need a chance to show to you the feelings I’ve hidden away.

Copyright 1977 Elizabeth Abrams Chapman