Elucidating Questions

So here we are in the city watching buildings growing up with better care than humans

And the eyes keep drifting elsewhere but my heart is on repeat

Practising words that it doesn’t know yet and making sure they’re set

And I have this persistent image in my mind of this building and him

Standing outside with his foot up on the wall like he’s a part of the backdrop of the city

Not a rich boy with too much time on his hand

Just another person who happened to be here at a time

Just a person

Just part of the background

And even though it’s never happened and there’s no way it could now

My mind teases me with these images

Because it knows what I want

せめて、せめて、「彼」と出会いたいんです…