Inconsistent at best

Play pretend I've met you:
now we're best friends and we get to
figure out the whos and whats and whys and hows we ought to be

half the future c(o/u)m(e/*)s to me 
the other half is up to me
to fill in all the blanks
you know it's hard to be an optimist these days.
Is it so violent
as my mind is implying it?
I don't even know you and you don't even know me.

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I recoil 
you recoil back
I recoil
you recoil back

Pride, confliction:
have to be right
Pride, conviction:
no, hear my light

I reach out
​you reach out back.