Reluctant Lover

An expanded and edited version, of my poetic response, to Tina Louise" poem, "Let me into your heart". http://www.writerscafe.org/writing/TiaLouise/1336189/

How I wish
I could open up
And let you come
Dive deep inside

My heart.

But

The pain is
So vast
I don't know
How to stop it.

Am scared
To grant you

An entrance way

To my heart.

For it will
Only inflict more pain
For you and I.