Vulnerability

Don’t love me

It hurts too much

I would rather keep this barbed wire

Wrapped around my soul

Because the truth is

Deep inside I am terrified to be known

I also have so much pain

Over what was done to me

That when you come again

So close to me

I cannot breathe

So I will hold to my boundary

Of what is right and wrong

So that I do not have to risk

Too much vulnerability