“mamihlapinatapai” – (Guiness World Record for most succinct word)

according to the dictionary:
“looking at each other
across the cafe, two strangers
intersect, live asymmetrical
around this point in
the universe’s infinite tapestry
hoping that the other will of er
an anchor in a gift-wrapped
promise, a test of revolutions
to follow before the world tilts
sideways once more and forgets
they’re there. Each on a mission
to do something of which
neither knows the definition or the destination,
only that this look has—
impossibly— more than one derivative,
to blossom into a rosy curve that
both parties desire
and it can start with
a smile or a surrender
to hope’s gnawing, motherly prods,
an infinity changing course
from a fixed point.
And they know but
they’re too strong for this,
believe they can
but neither are willing to initiate.”
So the fixed point shatters
and two strangers meet
eyes and part, still,
as strangers.