A Most Fragile Hope.

I thought I'd learned my lesson. I thought I'd forgotten.
I thought I could stay away from it, to forget that feeling.
You'd think after One soul shattering and three heartbreaks, I'd take a hint,
wait, until I could love someone again, but,
there it is. Another one, trying my heartstrings.
I won't lose control again, I won't go all in.
Not for a long while. I know my place,
I know how girls can use and manipulate,
I know how thoroughly they can destroy me.
I promised I wouldn't keep looking.
But, there goes another girl walking into my life.
How nice it would be then, if she weren't playing,
If she actually did feel something for me.
She's better than the others, if she isn't.
She tends to get short breathed around me,
hides he face, won't look me in the eyes sometimes.
tries to stay with me, even when I offer to give her space.
Maybe, just maybe, she won't break me. 
But, if it comes down to it, I know to ask,
before, not after, we're good friends.
I won't repeat that disaster again.
But for now, The most fragile of hopes...