THE FORCE FIELD

Always on, keeping

threat at bay,

usual suspects

at arms length,
yet never calling

attention to itself.

Like a lie that masks

the truth, a yes

that hides a no,

it is there

out in the open

yet invisible.

A feigned interest

that conceals fear.

An intimacy 

that baits the trap.
A diffidence

that snaps it shut. 
Avoidance that tases
like love.