how you know you're in love..

love, lust, fling, or whatever thing.

here's my philosophy:
when you are in love, you will be scared shitless.

it will grab a hold of you:
consume you, devour you, possess you.
and whether you like it or not,
it will hurt you.

love is made of sacrifices and promises.
you'll give and you'll take,
you'll confess, progress, digress.
but it'll never work out just right.

after all,
no pain, no gain.

it'll leave you raw and numb.
any other dimension of reality
will seem insignificant.

you will be obsessed with thoughts:
thoughts of what if's,
could have been's,
and should have been's.

you will give yourself up to grasp of susceptibility:
but for some reason,
nothing else matters.

if you are in love,
you will disregard all of these thoughts,
and go on loving.

this is how i know i am in love.
right now i am scared shitless.
nonetheless, i am happy.

alas, i am in love!