Literature
The Pathway to Love
I learned,
Today,
How to love.
The most terrifying feeling
I’ve ever known.
Because you suddenly know
Without a doubt
How truly fragile you are.
Because a word from them,
Can break you.
Another word
Could save you.
To know there exists someone
With that power over you
Is a terrifying thing.
To know you hold such power,
Over another,
Is a hundred times worse.
Because to find
The place
Where your heart ends
And theirs begins
Is a treacherous path.
To sever that thread –
To cut yourself free –
Who knows how much of them
You’re taking away?