Not mine, but yet...

I can not say you are mine

We are continents apart

Our link is thin, a tenuous line

Cruelly unreal at heart.

I dare not say you are mine

Though close to my heart you stay

In crowded cities, quiet corridors

Sudden glimpses through the day –

I dare not say you are mine

Yet every morning I wait

Check my mail a hundred times

So I don’t reply late.

I dare not say you are mine

You’re not really real, are you?

A figment of all my longings, wishes

That I have built in you anew.

I dare not say you are mine

Good that we never may meet

You will always stay this way

Just as I wish you, my sweet!

My image, my story, my beautiful poem

My warm and gentle sunshine

Since you do not exist beyond my thoughts

Are you not already mine?