BEHIND THE GLASS

So tempted
to touch you,
yet afraid
for you aren't mine
that you would allow me
to behold you.
You are so near
right before me.
But your
pretty glass case
divides the space
between us.
I fight temptation
and painfully await
the moment you
break your glass.
and allow me in.
Or is it I
who infiltrates the barrier
first?
Shock.
My world splinters
and shatters away
around me.
Your hands reach for me.
And I realize
it was I
inside the glass
unreachable and immobilized.