Forbidden Love

It wasn’t a love

It was a fever

A bright

Delirious animal

That crawled out of the dark

And whispered your name

Like it had been starving for it

It bent the air around you

Warped the hours

Turned every rule into smoke

The world said no

But the world was small

And your hearts were enormous

Two celestial mistakes

Orbiting too close

To avoid collision

It felt illegal

In the way storms are illegal

Too wild

Too luminous

Too full of the kind of truth

That makes ordinary people

Look away

You touched

And the universe flinched

You looked at each other

And gravity forgot its job

Every moment was a doorway

You weren’t supposed to open

So of course you opened it

Again

Again

Again

Until the hinges glowed

Forbidden love is a spell

Cast by accident

Broken on purpose

And still somehow

Alive

It doesn’t end

It just hides

In the pulse

In the breath

In the impossible place

Where two souls meet

Even when the world

Says they shouldn’t