Do Not Fall In Love..

Do not fall in love,

With people like me.

People like me,

Will love you so hard,

That you turn into stone,

Into a statue where,

People come to marvel at,

How long it must have taken to carve,

That faraway look,

Into your eyes.

Do not fall in love,

With people like me.

We will take you to

Museums and parks

And monuments,

And kiss you in every beautiful place,

So that you

Can never go back to them

Without tasting us,

Like blood in your mouth.

Do not come any closer.

People like me

Are bombs.

When our time is up,

We will splatter loss

All over your walls

In angry colors.

That will make you wish

Your doorway never learned our name.

Do not fall in love,

With people like me,

With the lonely ones,

We will forget our

Own names

If it means learning yours.

We will make you think,

Hurricanes are gentle,

That pain is a gift.

You will get lost

In the desperation,

In the longing for something,

That is always reaching,

But never able to hold.

Do not fall in love,

With people like me.

We will destroy your apartment.

We will throw

Apologies at you.

That shatter on the floor,

And cut your feet

We will never learn,

How to be soft

We will leave.

We always do.

- Gabriel Gadfly