Is it healthy to be following him around
the way you do?
You don’t have to answer that
even to yourself.
Just let the question percolate for a while
crackling beneath your active notice
just as you attempt

to walk beyond the periphery
and escape his awareness.

Simply let your subconscious wonder for a while
whether either of you
is being served by this magnetic attraction
and how long this should be going on.

Again: no answers today.
But later maybe.