{"sf1_id":931898,"sf2_id":"znJBv2rn","title":"I Don't Know How To Love","author":"DRP","words":510,"posted_at":"2015-11-09T05:28:00.000Z","tags":["Gay","Husky","Love","Poem","Relationships","Squirrel"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/931898-i-don-t-know-how-to-love","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/znJBv2rn","image_url":"https://www.sofurryfiles.com/std/thumb?page=931898\u0026ext=.jpg","description":"The following was my submission for Heat vol. 13. It was rejected due to the poem being too long and rambled. The following is the new rewrite after their notes. Hope you enjoy and have a nice day.","content":"Forgive me for I don't know how to love.\n\nYou wouldn't think it would be that tough.\n\nI've seen it in movies a thousand times.\n\nI've heard it in songs a million times.\n\nAnd yet when I'm sitting next to you.\n\nMy mind goes hazy.\n\nMy mouth goes mute.\n\nUnfortunately, it reveals the uncomfortable truth.\n\nI never had these feelings till I met you.\n\nWho would of thought that of all species a husky\n\nCould make a squirrel's heart beat so briskly.\n\nIf you asked me then I would think you were nuts.\n\nYet here I am resting in the warmth of your arms.\n\nCuddled around the TV\u0026nbsp;like an electric fire.\n\nYet I cannot express my own heart's desires.\n\nForgive me for I don't know how to love.\n\nYet there are so many things about you I can think of.\n\nThe feeling of your paws wrapped around mine.\n\nBrushing your grey fur is simply divine.\n\nFrom up top with your narrow pointed muzzle\n\nAnd who couldn't say no to that curly tail?\n\nI remember the first time we kissed\n\nAnd how awkward it was trying to meet each other's lips.\n\nIt ignited a spark that grew over time\n\nEngrossing us in a heat as our bodies intertwined.\n\nExploring, embracing.\n\nRubbing, tracing.\n\nSharing each other with our primal passions.\n\nAnd yet I can't express it through a simply interaction.\n\nForgive me for I don't know how to love.\n\nI'm awkward. I'm shy.\n\n\u0026nbsp;A nerdy little prev sneaking quick peeks at other guys.\n\nTill the day you crossed my eyes.\n\nThis squirrel has never shared himself with another\n\nShowing them his hopes and desires.\n\nMost before were a quick piece of tail\n\nFor some fun, and forgotten, as I hit up the next profile.\n\nThen I saw you, another catch.\n\nYet in that one night you showed me\n\nThat you were more then just a silly little husky.\n\nI saw a glimpse of a man who's kind and caring.\n\nWith little quirks, like your love for body piercings.\n\nThe more I saw the more I loved.\n\nSharing each other's perfections and flaws.\n\nFor the first time I've discovered\n\nI'm in love.\n\nLeading me to the conundrum I stated above.\n\nI didn't know how to love\n\nIt's from a lack of experience\n\nNo fault of your own.\n\nThank a youth told to repress\n\nLeading to one too many arguments\n\nYou've had plenty of times to leave me.\n\nAnd you're friends wouldn't of disagree.\n\nYet you stay cause deep in you chest\n\n\u0026nbsp;You know you're teaching me to finally express.\n\nWhere this excuse will no longer be on repeat\n\nThen I'll sweep you off your feet.\n\nAs I go down on my knee.\n\nTrying not to trip over on my own tail with unease.\n\nThis squirrel is ready to make the dive\n\nCause you make me feel so alive.\n\nIn the end when I present the ring\n\nI can't see a world without you and me.\n\nLove for me use to be an unknown.\n\nBut today I can proudly say\n\nI love you, darling.\n\n  \n  \n\n"}