If It's Obvious Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

You want my heart to touch?
Then avoid the teasing.
You want me to know you so much?
Then why play hide and seek?

Both of us should know,
We are too old to play games.
And too old to turn cold shoulders,
With it done to pretend...
We want something 'heating' between us,
To happen and begin.

If you want my heart to touch?
Then avoid the teasing.
If you want me to know you so much?
Then why play hide and seek?

Both of us should know,
We are too old to play games.
Both of us should know by now,
Embers once quick to stir them into flames...
Isn't as easy to do to ignite or claim,
If it's obvious youth no longer there can prove it.