Hiding my Heart

I am sitting here listening to my stereo system, these speakers makes Adele sound like she is really in the room singing in front of me!
The song Hiding My Heart comes on and I begin to think.
There are those moments in life when someone comes quietly knocking on our hearts,
ever so gently the presence of them moves the earth beneath our feet.
But what happens when that gentle, earth moving knocking comes when we dare not respond?
Being in a relationship, married or otherwise holds a deep and very heavy moral dilemma...

The earth moves each time we are in that person's presence, much, much more intensely if there is physical contact, such as a hug. I feel heavy just writing this.
A friendship appears to develop, we see each other daily at a store, a coffee shop, or as chance sometimes plays its game, meeting when least expecting it...
The words are always friendly, safe and friendly.
But what lies behind our eyes is anything but safe. too much of this "safety" and a distance ends up being created. we stop going to that store or find another coffee shop or prays both seeing the person and equally not.

Hiding My Heart, there is danger in holding it in, there is danger in releasing it.
thoughts of what could be, changes to what may have been when looked at in the light of day. Relationships are anything but simple, but again, it is too evasively simple.
It comes down to one second, to a decision in that moment.
The moment that will change everything forever.

The knocking on our hearts remains a quiet stirring within that cannot be answered.
More hearts would be broken than what our hearts can withstand...
In the end the knocking on our hearts just show us that we are still indeed alive and capable of love and in the final decision we find that passion does indeed live, hopefully making us take a much needed look at the relationships we are in and find that it had started back then with a gentle knocking at our hearts