Distance

"Don't look at me like that."

"Like what?"

"Like there are a million words you wish to say but you are holding them back."

"Like the goodbye on your lips is opposed by the longing in your eyes. Like if I looked in your eyes even for a second, I'll drown in the emotions you have kept trapped there. Like if I reached for you, there will be no you or me; just us. Like any second I would lose myself. Like If I would name every emotion swirling in your eyes and claim them as mine; claim you as mine, you would surrender."

"Why not?"

"Because it is scary, knowing that the moment I let myself go, I'll never be mine but yours and your arms my eternal place."