Survive this

I want your hands to find their way back into mine.

a slow steady warmth spreading from your fingers

melting off the ice I’ve carved my shell out of.

You’re doing quite well, I must say. Considering

how many have tried and failed before you.

 

But friends keep saying “be careful” “don’t get hurt

 again”

and how can I tell them?

explain it to the fullest like I’ve done

for myself.

 

let them in on the feeling, of my heart

doing summersaults and that somehow I’m

trusting again. diving away without my safety

net of you knowing nothing about me.

Ever moment together, more of myself

oozes out into the air between us.

 

Each time, you pass the parts where

the average person, would high tail it and run,

and keep smiling. Keep saying things

that make my heart beat flutter and falter.

 

           you’ve truly mesmerized me.

                with your smile, your laugh, the way

                                I could have sat on that park bench,

           all night, just listening, to you saying anything.

                     you have me completely captivated,

                           a deer in head lights.

but even with the treat of

                having feelings, staring me straight in the face,

i’m still daring to bite my bottom lip

and keep hoping

                that I’ll survive this.

Reviews

[Pink Poison]

Great feelings evoked here. I can empathize with the parts where most would high tail it and run. I think your imagery throughout the poem is very powerful. The first stanza leads us into the world of hope and the rest of the poem creates that solid feeling very well. Love is scary, but if it works, it all worthwhile to take the risk.