overwhelming presence

One grows distant from another


not because of hatred,


not because of indifference,



but sometimes,


because of fear.


There's the fear that the hurt gets greater


as one gets closer...


a recognition of the tendency to fall deeply,


and consequently drown


in a quicksand of stupid irrationalities.



At times,


what drives one away


is not the absence of emotion,


but the


overwhelming presence of it. :(