Carissa Galow's Blog – April 2011 Archive (3)

You broke down my walls

The ones I tried so hard to keep built up

I wanted to love

But I was afraid to give my heart to someone again

Searching, but keeping people at arms length

Desiring to be loved

Wanting to be touched

Physically, emotionally, & spiritually

Praying that you'd find me…

I remember it as if it were yesterday, or was it perhaps just then? It was around this very time at night and unseasonably cold, much like now. Ah, deja vu, it appears to have found me! But this is neither here nor there. I have a tale to tell and so I shall tell it.

I'd been tossing and turning all night, as I tend to do, when I heard a sound that sounded like nails lightly scraping my window. At first, I dismissed it as a branch from our old tree blowing in the wind. But,…

When love takes flight

Where are you?

Are you watching it fly away?

Sighing that regretful sigh

Because you let it get away

Did you hold on too tightly?

Were you trying to keep it in a mason jar?

Thinking if you hold on for dear life

That it'd never leave

Feeling smothered, it ran for dear life

Did you push it away?

Did you build up a wall to keep it out?

Perhaps the past got the best of…