Nothing to Fear, but...

Have no fear,
my distant love.
Have no fear of love.

Fulfill no dark
prophecies, my dear.
The threat is in the fear.

Test as you must;
what will fail is your trust,
though you’ll still say I blew it.

Keeping love at arm’s length
will spend its strength
so you can say “I knew it”.

(a poem on self-fulfilling prophecies, as I still suspect that the reason he pushed me away was fear )