excerpt: a new way to look at "fight or flight"

"something has come alive inside of me.
a passion so unbridled,

that thinking rationally is quickly seeming irrational
for the purpose of redeeming love.

how great a story would that be?

i would just as soon drive hundreds of miles
to release the tension face to face
with a few short words
a hurricane bursting forth from me, all around me

i would just as soon do this
as i would take a bite to eat
for supper
to satisfy a hungry belly.

the hunger grows the more i imagine
how good that first bite would be,
if it's all i hoped it to be.

[i am sitting on the fence between
fighting for the most extraordinary love
and hanging on to an idea,
a hope worth letting go.
my feet dangle off the side.
if i had no guards, how would i really say it?
if i had no fear, and regret was no threat to me?]"