Time to visit my 17 year old self, for the next sub-theme in Love's Tempest of 'Unrequited Love'.
With low self-esteem and low social confidence it was kind of inevitable.
But that's not the only way this particular storm can brew.

This first poem in the sub-theme, 'Reckless Abandon' is presented in two forms.
In its original version, and as a shaped poem.

 

The original version 

Just one flash...
                 One slash of wrist,
And even my blood flows away
                        From me now.
Just one flash, one smash, one fist!
For my heart won't stay with me
                Now.

 

 

and as a shaped poem.

 

                 Just
             One flash...
        One slash of wrist,
    And even my blood flows 
  Away from me now. Just one
  Flash, one smash, one fist!
    For my heart won't stay
            with me now.

 

 

Note: Exploring the thought within poetry does not mean that the poet has acted out the concept.
          People often have the thought of doing something without reaching the point of choosing to do it.
          This was for me a protective poem, a slash of ink instead.