A Dichotomy Of Lovers Asleep Poem by RIC BASTASA

what i like about you
is the strangeness
that which i cannot understand
because you are
too near
that which i cannot hold
because you are so fragile
that which i cannot love
because you have
kept the distance
between two worlds
that prefer to be independent
and indifferent

what i like about you
is what you like about me too
and when we meet
we understand
that we have to take our separate ways
just to be happy i guess