REASONS NOT TO KISS HER:

1) This sort of love is not allowed. You are both too soft, and the world around you is all knives and chipped teeth.

2) No one ever taught you how to love. Your war paint and scarred hands could never hold her like she deserves.

3) No one has ever loved you this full, surely you would drown in it all.

4) She belongs in a museum, and you are merely here to gaze. Look around you, all the sign scream 'DO NOT TOUCH'.

5) She touches you like you're fragile, and it you break you won't be able to put yourself back together again.

6) She is all bubblegum skies and chapstick kisses, and you cannot watch the love run out of another persons eyes.

7) If you jump, she might catch you, and then you'd have to watch as she tumbled through the dark.

8) Her gaze is too gentle. You will not be the one to tell her that not everything is fixed with a smile.

9) She is so good. She is so good, and you cannot ruin one more good thing.

10) You will not watch her crumble under the weight of your sins. She is too light, too breathless to be caught up in the dizziness of your heart.

REASONS TO KISS HER

1) She loves you, and her eyes are closed, and didn't your mother ever tell you not to leave a good thing waiting.

— lessons in listening to your heart, and not your head