He found her on the rooftop,
lost beneath a darkening sky.
The beep as the lift doors closed
told her that he was nearby.

“You waited,” he said softly
and she turned to meet his stare.
They stood alone, twenty meters high,
the silence too much to bear.

He smiled as he stepped forward
and pulled her into an embrace.
She almost didn’t see the tears
sliding slowly down his face.

“I’ll admit it,” he said softly,
“I’ll admit that I’m so scared.”
She said, “I thought you wouldn’t come,
because you never cared.”

“I love you more than anything,
but my parents, they don’t know,”
he said, “so it was easier
to just… Say ‘goodbye’ and go.”

Her fingers grazed her stomach
and she lost herself in his eyes.
He pulled her closer to him and
simultaneously, they sighed.

The ground seemed so far away
and the traffic just a blear.
She reached up to touch his cheek
at this moment, only two things were clear:

One was that he loved her
and that she loved him too;
Two, that this was just so wrong
but it was what they had to do.

He buried his face in her hair and cried
while she murmured, “It’s for the best.”
She leaned into him and counted down
the heartbeats in his chest.

He gazed out into the sea of cement
and the moment for change seemed right…
So he grasped her hand and kissed her
as they three fell into the night.