Parenthesis

 I would have held you

     like a parenthesis holds

a single word within its

         curves- 

but I'm worried you may

    misplace the 

               (pregnant) pause-

so I've decided

    to avoid the subtlety    

        of sincerity,

and hang you like a quote

    somewhere precariously in the 

middle, "committing" to be

neither 

     here nor

                    there.