Vulnerable

i have gained the

unfortunate illness

of being scarred

by a past lover.

i am scared to love again.

i am frightened

to be vulnerable.

 

yet as time passes,

i feel the shell slowly

falling away just as the

naked body of a newly shed snake.

i find myself

following that predictable routine

of once again

falling for someone.

 

let’s just hope that

this end result

will not leave me in a

rusted and bent

body of armor.