Initial reaction: open. I’d do anything to help you navigate out of yourself. Wrap you up, consume you, carry you and your demons inside of me until you are new again. In that instant squeezing so tight, in hopes of putting all your pieces back together. But that would take millions of moments and we were only given one.
Processing reaction: closing. Resorting to all I’ve ever known helplessly watching from inside locking myself behind the walls I build to protect myself from harm, selfish. Not wanting to lose what I’ve worked so hard to construct.
Final reaction: I will not set fire to myself to keep you warm but I will help you find your own.