opposites
It's his discipline and her freedom
that drew them together.
Opposites, pulling, unrelenting.
Fatal attraction.
Some sort of desperation.
Then conversation, mundane and banal,
fills the space that words cannot.
They speak in a dance,
stepping around each other,
tripping, stumbling and falling.
A clumsy sort of grace.
His gaze, fixed on her.
Her eyes, lowered.
Cheek to chest,
hand to hair,
silence.
Heartbeats,
both of theirs,
say what they cannot.
A sharp breath,
to keep from crying.
It's time.
For him to go.
For her to let go.
An understanding
that they cannot kill each other
or what binds them together.
Breathe.
Then it'll start all over again.

