Silly heart,
You opened the door
Again

You promised this time
You would be More careful
With the guest list

Try and remember
They are only
just visitors

This one

Has you thinking
About coffee pills
And the smell of
Rain from your
Hometown

He even learned
new ways to
Light up your soul

But too late
Too long heart

Brain has learned
To take over

There are moments
that have imprinted in my mind
that will long surpass
when my body goes

It is adjusting to me, knowing
that I feel the shift in the temperament of a room,

the moments when
my body knew long before my mind
that my heart was safe

Walking me back through the dark corridor
and yet I did not call it love then

When you hid the
terrible taste of the ice cream,
I felt myself turn into
a kid
curious, I wanted to taste it too

And then all you asked
was for me to repeat
myself, because you
interrupted me

An empath will never call it love,
but my heart found home with you


But one year later,
as I’m
driving
down a dark lane
lost, my thoughts distracting me
from reading the signs
it was not to you
that my heart looked for
Safety