Strangers In-love

Oh, how easily we get attached to other people,
learn to love strangers,
yet how we never really surrender ourselves to love;
we never get to see how these strangers turn to familiar.

We long for someone to love,
and when we find that someone we get attached to
we still will not let ourselves
love fearlessly.

The way we love is complicated;
no matter how strong our feelings are,
we always keep thinking about taking a few steps back;

we want to either protect ourselves or others from something;

and eventually we wake up from our nightmares
when we have taken too many steps back to take any more forward.

It seems we tend to wake up too late.