This feeling springs
unbidden.
Flurries within my chest,
giddiness unknown.

I learned my lesson
once already.
Or so I thought.

But it seems
that the world is full
of bright, shining stars.
Intelligent and wonderful
you.

The world is bubbling with men
who are
willing to treat me right
and I,

I cannot deal with it.

- Hannah Jo, 2009

Labels: fear, hurt, life, love, men