Strangely Familiar

Your eyes once mirrored a familiar stranger,
A transient cold stare sent me shivers,
As your warmth slipped through my fingers,
You were here, but I can’t feel you near.

We got lost in translation,
Plunged into the abyss of miscommunication,
Unalike languages we’ve spoken,
Ended in an unkind confrontation.

We traversed reconciliation,
On burning bridges verging destruction,
The dreams we constructed on a concrete foundation,
Why is it caving in to corrosion?

Strangely familiar,
I’ve been down this road before,
Picking up the tatters,
Injuring myself with the splinters.

Pinning my hopes on this poésie,
And the message it conveys,
You wounded me badly, too,
I ain’t brave enough to tell you.

Strangely familiar,
Deja vu, I’ve knocked on this chained door,
Nobody’s home, nobody answered,
Unsaid resentment and apologies unheard.

Strangely familiar,
Will we endure and maneuver?
Will we hold on a little tighter?
Against the glitch of fate, will we be smarter?

Can we just rewind?
And moments be revived?
When our worlds facilely collide,
And we didn’t even have to try.