darling 

you are a dandelion

ever changing yet ever the same

you maintain a fragility that is daunting 

I want to make you mine

to hold you

to admire your beauty in true detail

but I'm warned to keep my distance

something so magical 

so fragile

cannot be held too close

for the risk

that once I impart my grip

the near captured happiness

will abandon me and link graces with the wind

never again to be loved so easily.

you are a dandelion

pretty and alluring

lending me fear 

that the same breath I exhale in awe 

will be the breath that does me in 

and carries you away with the wind.

you are a dandelion

I'm afraid of standing too close

afraid of preventing you from living life

as a vessel of beauty

inspiring others with hearts like ours;

you are too grand a concept.

darling

you are a dandelion