The outsider's distrust



Caramel
chocolate
lovers
tasting each other
with a delicate caress
of cheeks

A mother
carrying the one
sweet bundle of joy
to its future

Close
strangers
and the vibrating
cheerful string
in between

I watch
curiously
I wish
to come close

(or secretly
biting
into the untouched
lonely flesh
of a silent
observer)

(or holding
on to her burden
blindly
committed)

(or implicit
enemies
shaking hands
on the tense
rope of rivalry)

(and fall prey
to suspicion
and treasure
my distance)