Writing Crush

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I fell for you online, anonymously smitten
Just reading the words your pen has written
You overcame my defensive skepticism
With your every phrase's pensive rhythm
In clever poetry or wishful prose
How this affects me, no one else knows

I tune in daily, hoping to find more
Captivated by your emotional outpour
Each confession of pain that you wrote
Lodges a lump of sympathy in my throat
Your mature resiliency amazes me too
I'm stuck to your journal like binding glue

Your way with words burns me with a fire
Hotter than anything else I could admire
I follow your story's every twist and bending
Wishing I could someday be your happy ending
I keep reading, knowing that I'll never find
Something of yours that doesn't woo my mind

And though I'm a stranger, still I wonder
What category you might put me under
If I spoke up and admitted this yearning
Would our age difference be stomach-turning
Would you smile and nod that I adore you
Secretly hoping I go away and ignore you

My fears keep me quiet but still I read
Your every doubt, inspiration, and need
Until the day I leave the shadows behind
And send you a message, trying to find
A place in your heart, for better or worse
I'll enter your life and exit this verse