I want you.

My feelings are natural.
 They grew on their own,
 without intention.

And naturally—
I want you
to feel the same.

To want me,
as I want you.

To feel it evolve,
without effort,
without force,
without doubt.

I hunger for you
to want me—
naturally.

Everything in the way
you look at me,
the way your body leans closer,
the way your breath slows—
says it’s natural.

And yet—

you wait.

I don't think you want me
and I stop wanting you.

You just say that
to not admit you want me
more than I want you...

No, I have explained that
my love, desire, interest
is recursive, mutually reinforced
and fed by
your feelings for me.

My perception of your lack
of feelings creates similar
lack of feelings within me
fed by, reinforced by
my perception of
your lack of
feelings for me
which occurs without
effort, is not willed
nor is it simply a reaction to a negative
feeling within me
because it is fed by not a feeling
but a lack of feeling.