Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. Open your chest and it makes you weep. You build all these defenses, you build a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you. Then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life... They give you a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something damn one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you caving in the darkness, so simple a phrase. "maybe we should just be friends" turns into a glass splinter swirling it's way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.
