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I’ve learned one thing in my short 17 years on this planet.

That there will be no one to protect me forever

Because the only one that can protect me is myself

And I’ll bout out-numbered day after day in a world that is on an every-man-for-themselves basis.

I have to sleep with one eye open and both ears listening dead in the night

And I slowly to deep breaths because I feared to be heard.

I kept them even and steady for the fear of being with someone terrified me.

And now that I’m with someone I’ve fallen completely in love with,

I’m scared.

Scared of what would happen if I got so attached to him and he left?

Scared of forgetting what it was like to watch my own back.

Scared because I’ve come to rely on him in ways I’ve never relied on anyone before.

I’m scared.