WHY I AM TERRIFIED OF DATING YOU

When I was five years old
like everybody else
I thought I would only have sex with the woman I would marry.

Somewhere between Providence and ambition,
I lost my way and fell into a woman's arms.
who said that all she wanted was a penis inside of her.
Yes, I lost my virginity as a heartbroken teenager at the age of 22
trying to heal a heart ache that started when I was 13.
We kept having sex for two years,
and then she said she wanted to marry me.
I told her "we agreed in the beginning that it wasn't like that."
And she said, "I know, but I couldn't help but fall in love with you."

And that was the first in a string of broken hearts that I left,
as I grew older, of women who wanted to marry me.
But what those women didn't realize
was that half of the hearts I broke
on that trail of tears, were my own.

Copyright ©2014 Ashi Shadow - 1/25/14 or so due to Sonya.
On a theme I have thought about before and written about here and there.
The title was originally going to be something different, but I decided it was poignant like this.