soul-hurt

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have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it?
it makes you so vulnerable.

it opens your chest and it opens up your heart
and it means that someone can get inside you
and mess you up

you build up all these defense.
you build a whole suit of armor.
so that nothing can hurt you..

..then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person,
wanders into your stupid life

you give them a piece of you, they didn't ask for it.

they did something dumb one day,
like kiss you or smile at you,
and then your life isn't your own anymore

love takes hostages.
it gets inside you,
it eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness..

so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends'
turn into a glass splinter working its way into your heart.

it hurts.
not just in the imagination.
not just in the mind.
it's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart
pain.