Unexpectedly

I never knew you.

I had looked at you, and talked to you, and sometimes thought of you.

But I never knew you.

Beautiful and incomprehensibly strong.

You encase yourself in unfeeling.

With words you deny all affection.

But you are human. 

You need passion.

You need love.

You need hope.

And you need life.

You love deeply.  

You stay when others would leave.

And you care even when no one has given you reason to care.

I admire you.