You comfort me in the same way
a warm bath soothes my frayed nerves.
Calm, quiet, it feels like home.
You scare the shit out of me in the same way
a drive along the Pacific Coast Highway does.
Exhilaration, risk, it is a long way down.
Bringing the two polar opposites of us together
takes courage, creativity, and patience.
Self awareness, communication,
it is an end game at the pinnacle of all end games.
Having lived, loved, and learned from relationships past,
I have ventured out of my dark and hypothetically safe panic room.
Having lived, loved, and learned from relationships past,
you have cracked your bolted door and peeked out at Technicolor Oz.
The walls of our respective years are thick
with bad choices, traumas, and failures,
but here we are facing one another,
staring fear down.
We can hold hands in case either of us gets the shakes.
Let’s go.
~ Mk Michaels, 2014
