Eye contact
the intimacy involved
in a gaze
that does not look away
even when my own
breaks
from the vulnerability of it. 

Falling for him isn't 
falling at all.
It's a form of rising
into something
greater than myself.

Rising into 
a choice
of selecting
healthy thoughts
to believe
over maladaptive
pervasive
patterns of painful ones.

My body opens for him
and not simply to please
but to be pleasured in return.

He told me in some ways
it feels like I'm
a part of him.

He is steady
secure
he is calming.  

I like the idea
of my own self
being a part 
of him.
And he of my own.

Falling for him
isn't falling at all.
I don't feel a need
to be caught.
I feel the impulse
to rise.