Female Neighbors

You have generated terror
in my chimerical heart
since I was small.

You seemed so far away,
brushing by me in a
different direction,

being the judge
as if assigned by some kind of court
evaluating my suitabilities.

Your flesh did not seem
substantial. I wondered
what you were made of.

I only knew there was
a human being there
when I found you,

you were my friend,
and you grabbed my hand
in the muscle of your palm.