I am vulnerable.
Like a budding flower, I try to open myself up to you
but my petals are fragile
though you are harmless to me while shut up
when I am opened, I am exposed.
And you are just the wind
you do not know your force,
your strength,
until all my petals and
my protection is gone.
I am afraid.
A child in the dark with a flickering candle.
But every touch of light belongs to you,
and in those moments where the light banishes the dark
I am brave.
I leap over the chasms that you carve into my heart
the rivers you trace over my skin
and though I drown in your lips
it is not air that I search for.
I am selfish.
Though I should try to protect you
my mind screams to be with you
steal you away
keep you even though...
Even though you may not be mine
forever.
I am lost.
I search for stable ground
but with you, there is no such thing
so as the ground disappears beneath us
and though we are vulnerable,
afraid,
brave,
selfish,
lost,
We fall together.