On falling in love...

Isn't it funny when you fall in love

How you lose your common sense

As the world expands in an intoxicating swirl of colors, sounds, tastes, smells

that nothing outside it can penetrate?

It knows no bounds, extending itself not only into amorous love

but also with a new friend, a group or even an idea

As you get to know each other and discover similarities

You gladly pop the rose-tinted glasses upon your nose and skip into the beckoning swirl

Where hope, dreams, excitement, adventure await

Lost in a happy jig, you ignore the little warnings that tap you on the shoulder

The ones that try to tell you this isn't where you belong

And you skip deeper into the swirl to lose yourself some more

But eventually there comes a time when the momentum is lost

the glasses fall off and you're left wide-eyed and mouth agape

standing absolutely still 

as you try to decide

if you should stay 

or turn and run

I ran

~ ~ ~

As with everything the Universe brings my way

I learned valuable lessons 

and wouldn't have traded this opportunity

But

now I find myself with an idea that has planted itself in my brain

and I'm resisting the urge to fall in love

because each time the swirl loses momentum

there are bruises left to heal

I just have to decide if the bruises are worth it