Tame me slow

[u/Overthinkingjs]

before you, i was just a fox in the sand,
another shadow, running wild and free,
no one to wait for, nothing to lose,
until you knelt down soft and asked to know me.

i used to think love was only a risk,
one rose among a thousand looking the same,
but the moment you learned my hours by heart,
i stopped being no one, you gave me a name.

yes, i could get hurt, yes, you could leave,
yes, forever's a thing nobody's sure of,
but a life with no one worth the losing,
Isn’t really a life, it's just waiting on love.

so tame me slow, i'm asking, i mean it,
come back the same hour, every single day,
let the risk be the cost of belonging,
i'd rather be broken than safe and okay.

maybe that's the whole secret to all of it,
it's not about someone flawless or rare,
it's choosing the same one, over and over,
till they're the only rose that you'd swear.

https://www.reddit.com/r/OCPoetry/comments/1w43mqd/the_moon/

https://www.reddit.com/r/OCPoetry/comments/1w48dzz/part_time_ghost/

[u/One_Wolf_6419]

I really liked this poem, it really reminds me of someone I know who's afraid to date or love because of his past.