Please
Please help me understand
how to date often with ease, and without care
because to open up your own world-
to write a new character into your story-
is

terrifying.

Each new page holds potential
but I have yet to read the epilogue
and I have no idea whether the newest character is to become supporting
or is just a static addition soon to fly off with the wind

I'm afraid

so maybe i'll just close the book

But

as I read along
running my finger along each line
I can't help but love the way the author writes in your smile
and the way you look down when I smile back

oh how I hope your stay in this novel isn't a quest, but a journey, a venture to which the importance is the travel

because I love the way the author writes how tranquility lies stagnant in the deep pools of your eyes.
the eyes that I want to travel alongside
and smile
and laugh

These chapters each end in a cliffhanger all their own
my stomach turns to knots as the following events appear
distant and dangerous

But

As the author may intend,
when you wrap your comforting fingers around mine
I can't help but feel,
at ease
safe
and
pleased.