Fear of Love.

 

I love you and I really do care, I hear those words now and it makes me really scared

How do you respond to the words you have always longed to hear, when at first hearing they just fill you with dreaded fear

How do you know how to love if you have never been loved, is love just a wishful feeling or a gift from above

Is love a commitment to sharing with someone else everything, how can you do that when your feelings you have spent your whole life protecting

Love is handing over your heart and well-being to a stranger for them to take care of, how can you do that if you're still hiding from your past

Love is to care, support and protect another human being, how can you do that when you have spent your whole life just surviving

To receive true love is accepting you are worth loving, but how can you do that if you are riddled with self-loathing

Am I worthy of true love I really don't know; I will guess I will have to try and embrace it and see how it goes.

 

Nataiella 2012