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Ummm hi
<p><br/></p><p><a class="tc-blue" href="https://twocents.space/insights/tag/the365kreativhub">#the365kreativhub</a></p><p><a class="tc-blue" href="https://twocents.space/insights/tag/the100writingmarathon">#the100writingmarathon</a></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>UMMMM...HI๐</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>Ummmโฆ I have never fallen in love before.</p><p>I donโt even know what itโs supposed to feel like,</p><p>the rush, the safety, the ache,</p><p>the way people say it rearranges the heart.</p><p>Iโve only watched it from afar,</p><p>like something meant for others,</p><p>not for someone like me.</p><p><br/></p><p>And now that itโs here,</p><p>or whatever this feeling is,</p><p>Iโm scared.</p><p>Scared that Iโm reading the signs wrong,</p><p>scared that Iโll open too wide,</p><p>scared that heโll step in</p><p>only to walk out with parts of me</p><p>I never knew how to guard.</p><p><br/></p><p>Iโve heard stories,</p><p>how love can lift you,</p><p>how it can bruise you,</p><p>how it can leave you forgetting</p><p>the sound of your own laughter.</p><p>So maybe thatโs why I flinch</p><p>even at the softest touch,</p><p>why I second-guess every warmth,</p><p>why my hope feels too tiny</p><p>to hand to anyone at all.</p><p><br/></p><p>Because truthfully,</p><p>I donโt know how to love yet,</p><p>not the way poets write it,</p><p>not the way dreamers dream it,</p><p>and that alone terrifies me.</p><p><br/></p><p>Butโฆ Iโm here,</p><p>trying, trembling, learning.</p><p>So, Iโll just say hi.</p><p>Hi.</p>
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