untying my tongue

I am dropping my armor “I love you” I am exposing my bare chest “I love you”

I wrote the words that I needed to read this morning. Despite being a poet who explores the wilds of my expanding emotions - I still struggle with expressing them outside of the page.

I find myself often too scared to speak out loud my most tender thoughts for the people in my life. I let my affections wilt under the sunlamp of my artificial pride. Th…