Only in Theory

I wish you were not the you
that closes the road before it begins.
This earth is strange.
It lets two people meet
and then says:
no further.
No collapse worth telling,
no wound to romanticize.
You spoke as if love were possible
only in theory,
as if feeling me harder
would change nothing
except the danger.
Attachment is hope
continuing without permission.

 -Neharu (ネハル)