Thunder rolls across the dark sky, sending rain to tap at my window.
As I lay here in bed with your warm arms around me,
All I can hear is the rhythmic pounding of your heartbeat.
It’s almost as loud as mine,
But I sense the quick and unevenness of my own chest.
It’s not that I don’t find peace in your presence,
But that I fear the immense harmony I feel with you.
See, I’ve never held this affection for someone.
When others offered their love,
It seemed like a wave crashing onto me,
Beautiful but suffocating.
Yet, here you are whispering sweet promises of a blissful future into my ear,
One where you will never cause me harm.
And I want so badly to trust you, but that is not the world I have known.