Self-expression

I can't express myself in speech

and can't contain myself in reach:

the result is something untoward—

madly off in all directions

and boomeranging badly.

I’m referring here to romance, of course,

or lack of it, to be more precise,

my coming across as a drowning man,

too forward and too backward at once,

no good to anyone but myself,

Which is quite alright. 

I understand, if no one else can,

what I mean when I glom on

prematurely and get rebuffed,

and then act too tongue-tied to talk:

I am better off alone.