When I look at him My heart swells with pride My stomach fills with butterflies My brain fuzzes and fries My hands begin to shake And suddenly It’s like I forget my own name I can barely form a sentence My words are bland and sharp What I want to say doesn’t come out A lump forms in my throat And my lungs struggle to function I can think But I cannot say I cannot express I want to tell him how much I’m in love with him Instead i’ll settle for a ‘hi’
"Are you ok?" Physically, yes. Emotionally, most definitely not. My mind is racing with 1,000 thoughts but not one of them is coherent. My brain can't put a sentence together and I can't think straight. "Yes, I'm fine. Thank you."
My once clever brain goes silent when I look at you It forgets how to send signals to my nerves It doesn’t tell my heart to beat It refrains from instructing my lungs to inhale and exhale My body stills But somehow I manage to smile