i.
she loves someone
her opposite
but who is made of the same stuff as she
[oxygen, determination, carbon, ferocity, hydrogen, more than just a sprinkling of hidden hope, nitrogen, honesty, calcium, phosphorus...]
their world is beautiful (candy-colored skies and the reflections on the clouds
the birds
the glistening of rain and petrichor
mist wrapping in trails of effervescence around her arms
as it drifts away from dark
blades of grass)
but it
is not one you can love in