Your Kindness

Your kindness is

Surprising

Your tenderness is

Refreshing

Your love is

Something new

I’ve never wanted

To let someone in

As much as I do with you

You are all I need

Which scares me

So much it hurts

Because it means

I have to share things

That could make our love

Bleed out

It might run dry, forever gone

Your feelings could run cold

Make you turn away and run

I worry about your reaction

I worry you’ll leave me

Here alone

But my trust in you is growing

What we have will need

To be strong

I have skeletons in my closet

I have monsters in my past

They jump out

And try to hurt me

Every single chance they get

And it worries me that they

Could try to hurt you too

Please be strong for both of us

Stand tall and be our strength

Let your kindness

Your tenderness

Your love

Earn my shaky trust