Alice Who Poet Free verse

Love Is a Dangerous Game

I'm in this constant struggle
3 words
8 letters
A taboo if they slip too soon
Soon....
A measurement of time without end
Painting hearts in my head
Me + you
Elementary songs playing on repeat
K-I-S-S-I-N-G
Like a feeling is measured by a kiss
Like love is measured by physical attraction
Not the intellect or the meeting of two souls
I love you. 
I said it okay?!
Bottled up like the fizz from a soda shook too many times
I. love. you.
I feel it
All 3 words. 
All 8 letters. 
It shouldn't be as dangerous as we make it sound. 
But it's as if I'm a suicide bomber
On a mission from which I'll never recover
Waiting.
Waiting.....
To be humiliated 
or to be lifted up and put on cloud 9
Afraid 
of the consequences of words 
A loaded gun
How did we get here?
Why is it that we give so much power
To words
And why is it that when you don't say "I love you too" my worth is diminished 
Sticks and stones may break my bones
But What you don't say
 is what can really hurt me 
But why?

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