Believe Poem by Hannah Shier

Believe



To trust someone would be to place my very life into their hands and hope that it will flourish in their grasp and not wither and die.
To trust someone would be to give them my heart and pray that they do not shatter it into a hundred thousand shards of tears.
To trust someone would be to turn your back on them, to give them a heart-felt, two armed hug and believe that they would not stab you in the back.
To trust someone would be to give them all of your dark, dirty, disgusting secrets and know that they would still be kept in silence after school rolls around the next morning.
To trust someone is to take a chance I can't take: to open my heart, my mind, my soul, and let someone look inside, step inside, and, during that, not break me in two.
And that is something I'm simply not willing to risk.

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