Poetry

If I Fall In Love With You

If I love you, I will be your partner.

If I love you, I will hold my own.

If I love you, I will surprise you, often.

If I love you, I will test you.

If I love you, I will tease you.

If I love you, I will want your approval.

If I love you, I will want your support.

If I love you, I will take risks.

If I love you, I will reveal the best and worst of who I am.

If I love you, I will laugh loudly and smile often.

If I love you, I will create things that are a reflection of that love.

If I fall in love with you…

I will trust you, and you will betray me.

I will be vulnerable, and you will do me harm.

I will be who I am, and you will tear at my sense of self.

I will feel stronger, and you will wear at my sense of worth.

I will feel that I belong, and you will abandon me.

I will need you to take my hand if troubles prevail, and you will leave me to founder.

I will open myself to you, and you will wrong me.

I will give you my heart, and you will break it.

For my heart was taught

Long ago

That I deserved only

Harm

In love.

If I fall in love with you…it is over.

H. Elizabeth Dunn 3/2014