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If you must fall in love with me, do not fall in love with my skin.
If you must fall in love with me, do not fall in love with my looks.
If you must fall in love with me, do not fall in love with my beauty.
If you must fall in love with me, do not fall in love with me at all.
If you must fall in love with me, be warned.
For there are demons inside.
For there are insecurities that may blind you.
For there are thoughts that may repulse you.
For there are actions, past, that may disgust you.
For there are emotions that will confound you.
For there is an intensity, that will choke you.
For there is a temper, that will hurt you.
For there is hurt, that you may never be able to comprehend.
If you must fall in love with me, be warned. Be warned that there is a storm that will leave you bereft.
There is a storm that will strip you to your very bones and leave you devoid,
of all the joy in life.
There is a storm that will rattle you,
leave you weary.
Leave you weary,
leave you wanting,
leave you repulsed,
leave you hurt,
leave you tired.
For, my love, my insecurities rule me
whisper to me
torment me
rule me.
If you must fall in love with me, know this.
You will rue the day you met me.
If you must fall in love with me, my love, do not fall in love with me at all.
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Soul Curry
Fiksi UmumSoul food. Poems, prose and everything in-between. Copyright © 2014. The author reserves full rights over the work published. No party may replicate, reproduce or use the work in any way whatsoever without the express permission of the author.
