Blank Stares

Please don't sit and stare at me, for I don't know what to say

Your deep brown eyes piercing through, please direct them astray

This pressured desolate atmosphere is driving me insane

Every breath and every sigh is turning dismal again

Your soft but vehement voice sends shivers down my spine

I want to squirm into a ball, my heart my insides whine


I look at you for as long as my eyes can possibly bare

All I am capable of giving you are these stoical blank stares

Holding back the tears this confusion wants to shed

In the process I'm tearing your happiness to shreds


It's hard not being able to talk to you

I open my mouth, but I can't

You're trying so hard but I can't let you in

I can't give you what you want


Please, don't waste your time on me