Liking someone

Do you risk telling them how you feel, opening up to them and giving them your heart to cherish or crush? That sinking feeling of having to see them, but the immense joy when you do. How they make you laugh, even during a casual conversation. How do you get to know them without them finding out? Knowing you shouldn't date anyone but wanting to say screw it and take the plunge anyway. Thinking about them all the time, wishing you could stop feeling the way you did, but at the same time hoping the feeling never goes away.

That tightening feeling in your chest when you want them like crazy, but are forced to look away and focus on something else. Wanting nothing more than to be in their arms, for them to hold you and kiss you. Wanting them to tell you they like you too. Wanting desperately for them to have the same feelings as you do. But you're forced to look away, and be a stranger to them. To not know the feeling of them in your arms, their lips on yours. It is a curse I wouldn't wish on anyone. But one I would hope everyone would experience.