please, go slow, go gentle, learn to hesitate, before you let yourself fall.
before you risk it all, on someone else, you must first protect yourself before you let it all go.
you'll never know how they will choose to hold your heart. it could all fall apart in the palm of their hands.
and then you will not be able to stand again.
you will be on your knees begging for their mercy or reprieve,
you will once again succumb to your grief as it carries you home. you will be left alone, yet again, to your own suffering and there will be nothing to dry your tears.
you will dissolve, and disappear, into your despair, a penance you will have to bear as it swallows you whole.
so please, my dear friend, protect your soul because it is too precious to break.
i cannot bear to know you ache deeper than everyone else,
you do not belong on the shelf i reserve for those that are broken, as another poem for the lost, that is too great a cost that i cannot dare to pay.
go slowly, my friend, hesitate. stay.
do not jump and fall away if someone will not become your wings.
you do not deserve the ending that comes from the far fall.