If only you knew

If only you knew How, like a wallflower, I have wished for you. Too shy to lift my eyes to yours. Your wrists. Your shoulder. I lean on you to steady me, Wobbling above, I wish we were in love. Maybe it's best that I stay away But does she write you poems like this? Sometimes you are just a name and a time zone And I wonder Are you counting backwards eight hours as I do forwards? Expecting to see you behind the wheel of every red car I see but you are not the only person who drives a red car. I wished for you when I tossed my penny in the fountain And I hummed your song on the train home.