All You Need is Love Blog Hop

I’m joining in on a blog hop today over at The Book Maven.  Our instructions were to give away a lil prize to the hoppers (You lil’ bunnies you!), so today I’m offering a free copy of my new novel Angst to the winner of my contest below.  Please read on to find out my thoughts on love.  Love isn’t always the pretty picture everyone wants it to be…

Since I’m a depressive person by nature I’m going to take this Valentines Day and flip it on it’s head with a little of the opposite of mushy-gushy love.  Because Love isn’t all roses, chocolates and make-out sessions.  Love is hard!  Love is insecurity, love is trauma, love is…exposed

I love you is the new exposed…

I said I loved him

We had just met and somehow I knew

I could feel it deep within, overpowering me
Pushing aside my better sense
Devastating my reason

Words welling up
My full heart in my mouth
Flooding over in a rush

I love you

I wanted to hold it back
Self-preservation said I should
But I couldn’t

The truth wanted to be put
Into words

In the car, alone, I cry
Sobbing loud

Not able to see clearly
Screaming, wondering why I put myself out there
Questioning why I asked to be crushed

His words, repeating, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you

My heart is cannibalizing itself
Throbbing with rejection
Tears red hot, stripped

But the truth is, it doesn’t matter that I said it
I already feel it

That is enough, to leave me open
Exposed

I could die of exposure

Now that you too feel exposed, feel free to enter my contest below and I’ll post soon about the winner!  Thanks for stopping by! (I apologize that this giveaway thingy takes you off my site.  You don’t wanna know, it’s some techy jargon about why this won’t feature a widget. But please still enter!)

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Here are the other blogs participating in the hop…definitely check them out!

1. Constance Phillips, Romance Author	2. Stephanie Keyes, Author	3. Regina May Rosss Blog
4. Natalie-Nicole Bates (INT)	5. L. J. Kentowski – Urban Fantasy/Paranormal Romance	6. Off on a Tangent
7. Redheaded Bookworm (US)	8. Angst	9. Toots Book Reviews

10. The Unconventional Convention – Viola Ryan blog

11. Demons do it Better

12. The Book Maven