«I walk around you, carefully, not to wake you…» — Summary

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I walk around you, carefully, not to wake you from your sleeping state: The way you look makes everything so clear. It's clear, but it's not good. Good is when all is well, and all is not well. All is well when both parties feel the same way, feel like they belong: you don't - I do what is there to say, when I can only watch you from the outside? There are no holes in you that i can use to my advantage! you stay closed. Maybe you unlock for others! You leave me wondering, craving, starving. Feed me from within, save me all around. Crash into me, hollow me and then fill me up. Just be. Be near and be for me.

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The speaker is in love, or something close to it, with a person who doesn't feel the same way. They tiptoe around this sleeping, shut-off figure, and what they see is painfully clear: one person belongs and the other doesn't. "You don't, I do" sums up the whole imbalance in four words. The speaker can only watch from the outside, searching for a way in and finding "no holes," no weak spot to slip through. There's even a flicker of bitterness in the guess that the other person might open up for someone else.

Then the poem shifts from observing to begging. The speaker admits to craving and starving, and the requests grow bigger and more violent: crash into me, hollow me, fill me up. By the end, though, the demands shrink to something simple: "Just be. Be near and be for me." The mood is hungry and vulnerable, a mix of frustration and tenderness, with a plain, almost whispered honesty.

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