“What are you afraid of?”

“Why can’t you just let me love you?”

A silent thousand yard stare. An abrupt change in energy. The void that lives between us where warmth used to be.

I could apply that to the end of most of my relationships. The inability to express my deepest, yet embarrassingly simple truth— that I was too scared or unwilling to continue our relationship. That I didn’t want to join our paths together as I scrabbled across loose rocks trying to figure out my own. All the majesty of an elusive mountain goat. Correspondingly as stubborn too.