Alone at night, in my bed he comes to my mind-- I reach out my heart to him and wonder what I'll find... Fear reaches in at the mistake I have made, telling him how I feel too soon, but I could hold it in no longer...
He is new in my life, but love knows no time-- it can happen over years, or in the blink of an eye. But to him who is so quiet, who shows me love but says not a word... how am I to know that what he feels is not the same?
So here I am, out on a limb-- one whose heart has been broken so many times that I almost expect it, but for some reason still fear it, as if some part of me still holds on to some hope that he won't be like the others...
Afraid of love, or afraid of me and what I feel... So many run away at the first sign of this dreaded emotion which is like elixir to a woman but poison to a man...
He has shown himself to be different, so open and accepting, but part of me still knows and fears that in his heart he may be the same...
That he would run away and the thought of such makes my blood run cold as it has been years since I have felt this way after thinking I could never truly love again...
Out on a limb, watching and waiting for his every word and reaction, wondering which things I have said or done may be the mistake that ends it all, or that other outside cirsumstances will come in and tear it all apart...
Love with a neverending fear, until his decision is made and silence is broken-- and takes me in his arms and whispers back to me, "I love you"...