When you find yourself just an inch away from

Falling in love with someone else

Ignore the blush on your cheek, the punch in your heart

And tell your friends as genuinely as you can

That this is just the natural human curiosity to want to know another human

To want to crawl under her skin and look at the world the way she does

To want to see if the water tastes any different, when you take a sip

from her glass; To check if your heart can still skip a beat;

A test to see if it can break again, after years of being protected;

Her eyes dare you every day to embrace a fire

To enjoy it even when it threatens to burn you;

It’s been years, you’ve forgotten what it’s like to ache

For somebody else’s touch;

You know her so well, you can complete her sentences

And now the delicious feeling of being startled by an unexpected

Gesture, remark, characteristic, joke

The excitement of peeling off the layers, of discovering a new person,

She’s beautiful, isn’t she?

But inside of you there will be electricity,

Nothing but panic flowing through your blood

The heart itches and pulls at your chest

Hurting your ribs as it tries to escape,

Your head hitting the Almira, the wall, missing steps

Tripping, falling, limping, crawling

Trying to get through the day

Trying to tell yourself again and again,

no, you’re not falling in love with someone else.

No you’re not.

No.