if freeing myself from the
restraints that ground me
meant giving up the
opportunity to have you
in my life
i'd live with those
restraints shakling me to
reality
just for you
not a matter of love
longing, obsession
more like a purpose
you are my meaning
my definition
everything i don't express
you don't keep hidden
i'd give up the chance
to be free from humanity's reality
if you were in my life
you're the perfection
i'm afraid to reach
and i think we'd work out just fine
but a relationship with you
would be against the rules
not mine - but maybe yours
definitely society's
~erika boal