I Don’t Want to Fall in Love Again

For anyone who has ever been bruised by love and loss.

For anyone who has ever been bruised by love and loss.

Photo by Isi Parente on Unsplash

Remember the skinned knee of childhood? The bright sting of it. The flood of tears. The vivid pain is imprinted on our memory. The next time we fell, we knew exactly what we were in for.

I fell in love. He fell out of it. I remember the bright sting of it. The flood of …