Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable.. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart, and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.. You build all these defences; you build a whole suit of armour so that nothing can hurt you.. Then one person, no different from any other, wanders into your life.. You give them a piece of yourself.. They didn’t ask for it.. They did something with out knowing it one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn’t your own anymore..

Love takes hostages.. It gets inside you.. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness.. Such a simple phrase like, "Maybe we should just be friends", suddenly turns into a glass splinter working its way deep into your heart.. It hurts.. Not just in the imagination.. Not just in the mind.. Its a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain..

The sad thing is that sometimes you meet someone who means a lot to you, only to find out that in the end it was never meant to be and you just have to let go.. The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more.. The kind of love that plants fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.. And that’s what you've given me.. That’s what I’d hoped to give you forever.. And it scared me so much because letting you know I cared meant that you could hurt me..