Instructions for Loving a Girl Who Runs

1. Do not try to hold her down.

   She was born with the wind in her bones,

   and the moment you grip too tightly,

   she will be gone.

2. Learn to love what she leaves behind.

   She is a footprint in the sand

   that the tide will steal before morning.

3. Do not ask her to stay.

   She stays only when she wants to.

   She leaves only because she has to.

4. If she comes back,

   do not ask why she left.

5. And if she does not come back,

   know that some love stories

   are written for tragedy.