Fair Warning

Before you fall in love with me
(if you fall in love with me)
it only seems fair to tell you
that falling for me is a dangerous thing
because you aren't falling for a person
you are falling for my
stormy silences, shaking hands,
desperation, hopelessness
You are falling for misguided ideas
good intentions, misplaced morals

But you are also falling for
long conversations about nothing,
music, the way my eyes light up
you are falling for words like poetry

Be warned
that to love me
is dangerous
but it can also be rewarding