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His name is Poetry and we are desperately in love.
1)
Starts with a soar,
ends with a break.
–Love
2)
“Give me something to write about, sweetheart.”
3)
I like them headstrong
and neurotic.
—What’s your type?
4)
I’ve always had a sweet tooth.
Maybe that’s why I
was drawn to the boy
with cheeks the colour of
cotton candy,
the boy with the low,
sugary voice.
Maybe that’s why I fell
in love with you,
why I melted like
chocolate in your hands.
—Candied Heart
5)
Every time I see you,
my heart somersaults
violently in my chest.
—Acrobatics
6)
“How much do you love me?”
“To the moon and back, then twice round.”
7)
My sweet, starry-eyed thing,
you could never see
past it, could you?
You could never see past
that grandiose stupor of yours;
those honeyed illusions,
those impossible dreams.
Maybe you never will.
For the light in your irises
will eventually die,
and once you begin to see things
for what they truly are,
your heart will break.
And once your heart breaks, that’s it.
You’re a goner.
8)
Twelfth grade–
still never been kissed.
—17 going on 18
9)
Chasing after
this dream
is like chasing
after butterflies;
I get close,
only so it can fly
away to some height,
I can never reach.
10)
You are the rejection.
You are the crossed stars.
You are the heartbreak.
—Rosaline
11)
He will forever be my favourite heartbreak.
—Contradictions
12)
But darling,
I don’t think you will ever be able to find
another girl
who will write poetry for you…
—Serenade
13)
It’s raining in
the cosmos tonight.
The sky is weeping for you,
my darling,
weeping for you and
the love you lost.
The stars have shattered,
my darling–
shattered and estranged
the fragments of your heart.
You see,
this galaxy is just as broken as you
and
just as sad.
14)
Perhaps the stars have simply crossed
and gone their separate ways.
Perhaps I was destined to love
only so I could shatter.
15)
“He loves me.”
“You’re delusional.”
16)
I wished for you on
shooting stars
and on dandelion seeds.
I wished
that things would turn out
the way I needed them
to turn out.
But they did not
turn out the way
I needed them
to turn out.
So tell me,
if I pepper these words in stardust,
if I press dandelions to these pages,
would you grant my wish?
–To Him
17)
And that night,
her weeping was so great
that even the mighty Poseidon
would have succumbed to her tears.
—The Great Flood
18)
His eyes reminded her
so much of the sea,
that every time she looked at him
she felt like she was drowning.
—Pneumonia
19)
She thought he would be
the one to catch her
when things got bad.
Little did she know that
he would be the reason
she fell in the first place.
—Unwoven
20)
I’ve been driving myself crazy
because all I can think about is
who you might be kissing at midnight
and how that girl won’t be me.
And I realize that this New Year
is going to hurt just as
much as the last one.
—Resolutions
21)
And the heart broke the ribs,
crushed by the intensity of its beating.
—Untameable
22)
“I’m sorry he broke your heart.”
“So am I.”
23)
I can’t stop writing about him.
Even when I’ve run out of words,
I want to keep going.
I want to write about you
until it drives me mad.
You, darling, are my muse–
my wonderful, awful muse.
—Homage
24)
My sweet supernova,
I watch you in your
last moment of radiance
before you burn out.
One last moment and then–
nothing
as the stars in your eyes
dissipate mournfully
into the darkness.
These cruel heavens have made
an absent vessel out of you,
an empty crater that is home to
a black hole pulsing
where a heart used to be.
You must understand one thing, darling:
this galaxy was never meant for you.
This galaxy does not love you,
my sweet supernova.
25)
Darling,
there are splinters in your heart
and shards stuck in your palms.
That is why it hurts every time you love,
every time you try to hold someone’s hand.
—Baggage
26)
You guard your heart
with plastic army men
as a precaution
to ensure
that no one passes
this barricade.
No.
Not after last time.
Last time–
when you thought it was
safe to let them in.
Little did you know
how great
the casualties would be.
You know better now.
27)
Why is it that
every sad song
reminds me of you,
darling?
—The ribbon around my finger
28)
And maybe that’s why
she felt the need to dress
the way that she did–
Lacey stockings.
Blouses with alarmingly
low necklines.
Skirts long enough
to cover up the scars on
her thighs but not long enough
to be considered “modest”.
Because her face was never
pretty enough to be kissed,
and her poetry alone could not
make him fall in love with her.
—Easy
29)
With wine-stained lips
and a broken heart beating
heavily in her chest,
she mourns over
what could have been.
—Wistful
30)
“You know something? One day you’ll be real sorry, ” she told him.
“For what?” he scoffed.
“For not loving me when you had the chance.”
31)
But darling,
were you ever really in love with him,
or were you simply in love with the way
he made you feel beautiful
when no one else could?
—Narcissism
32)
I think I’m starting
to fall out of love with you–
please, Darling,
do something before it’s too late,
before you’ve lost me for good.
33)
I am in love with
a daydream;
a phantom kiss,
a haunt upon my skin.
He is but a mirage
of a boy that ripples
every time I reach
out to touch him,
a fluttering image that
reminds me of what
was never meant to be mine
in the first place.
—Chimera
34)
She danced to the
rhythm of his heart until
the soles of her feet
turned black,
until she fell to the ground,
lips quivering,
her lungs heaving–
this love had left her breathless.
35)
We have a twisted
kind of love,
Darkness and I.
See, I have always been
such a terrible flirt and
He has always been
so terribly captivating.
—This endless affair
36)
“My love, I know you dream of me.”
“My love, these dreams are but nightmares.”
—The bedsheets are weeping
37)
“This pain inside of you,
this aching in your heart–
they call it love.
—Thorns
38)
And even after all you’ve done,
I still manage to find a way to love you.
–But give me the right ammunition, and I promise to pull the trigger
39)
Alfred Lord Tennyson once wrote,
“Tis better to have loved and lost
then to never have loved at all.”
But is it really?
— I’ve lost everything
40)
The wedding bells
have turned to
funeral knells.
–White has never looked good on her anyway
41)
My heart breaks for you.
My soul mourns for you.
But my mind tells me
that I should have known better.
42)
If I say please real nice,
if I kneel at your feet and
bow my head in surrender,
–would you give me a chance?
43)
“There’s no point in chasing after
something that is faster than you.”
“There’s no point in chasing
after anything at all.”
–If he loved you, you wouldn’t be out of breath right now
44)
She will never love you.
But I will.
I do.
— But…I’m not her, right?
45)
They say it’s hard to love someone
who doesn’t know how to love themselves.
Is that why you couldn’t love me?
–Boys don’t fall in love with sad girls
46)
He was a hopeless romantic.
He just wasn’t a hopeless romantic for me.
47)
“He’s hurt you so many times.
I don’t understand why you keep holding on.”
“That’s the definition of insanity, isn’t it?
Doing the same thing repeatedly,
but expecting different results each time?”
48)
Bleed, sad heart.
Bleed like it’s all
you’ve ever known.
Because it is all you’ve ever known.
Bleed until the poison has leached
from your veins.
Bleed until there is nothing left.
–Maybe this is the only way to find peace
40)
Falling in love with you
taught me how to hate myself.
41)
They say you always remember
your first love.
—But what if I want to forget?
42)
“If he wanted to be with you,
he would be with you.”
–Part of me has always known, I just didn’t want to believe it
43)
Hit me, darling.
Yes.
You heard me.
Go on.
I dare you.
Hit me.
Do it.
A black eye,
some bruised ribs–
anything is better than
a broken heart, after all.
–Sometimes pain is the best medicine
44)
My feelings for him
exist in a place somewhere
between love and hatred.
–Dilemmas
45)
“You deserved better.”
“No. I needed to be better.”
46)
Sweet puppet master,
won’t you sever these ties?
Won’t you cut the strings
that bind me to you?
Please…
–Your puppet girl
47)
“But I love him.”
“You shouldn’t.”
48)
“So what now?”
“You have two options:
you either move on,
or you don’t.
It’s up to you to decide.”
49)
“What if I’m not ready to let go?”
“I don’t think anyone is ever truly ready
to let go of someone they love.
The only thing we can do is try to convince
ourselves that letting go is the right decision.
That if we don’t move on, we risk
short-changing ourselves.”
–”I’m afraid some things will always hurt”
50)
“But It won’t hurt forever, right?”
“I promise you it will hurt for
a long time. But it will
only hurt forever if you let
it hurt forever.”
51)
As the sun conceals itself
behind the clouds,
the tulips close in
on themselves
and the tree branches
quiver in nervous anticipation.
–A storm is brewing, darling, and it’s brewing just for you
52)
You will grow accustomed
to her absence
the same way she was forced
to grow accustomed to yours.
–Karma
53)
I want him to text me
just so I can ignore him.
54)
Did she lose him?
Or had he lost her?
–Both
55)
Do not expect
love letters and
good night text messages.
Do not expect me to be the girl
I used to be–
the girl who fell
in love with you.
That girl is gone.
You destroyed her,
remember?
56)
Perhaps icing him out
is the only way to
regain the warmth
of your own light.
–Someone will die of hypothermia, but this time it is not going to be me
57)
Maybe one day,
I will learn to love
you again.
And maybe on that day,
I will decide to write about you
the way I used to.
But, until, then
I think I might be done
with poetry for a while.
58)
But, oh, could it be, a new love?
59)
Different boy,
same old aching in your heart.
60)
It used to be that
every time I saw you,
I would get butterflies.
But now I can’t even
hear someone speak
your name without
feeling sick to my stomach.
—And that is not what love is supposed to feel like
61)
Don’t you do that.
Don’t you dare do that.
Don’t you dare stand there
and tell me I look pretty.
Don’t you dare give me hope
when you and I both know
you’ve never wanted me
and that you never will.
62)
You loved her,
just not enough.
You loved her,
just not in the way
she needed you to.
63)
How foolish I’ve been
thinking that
a boy like you could ever–
would ever–
fall for a girl like me.
64)
You are as intoxicating
as nicotine
and just as lethal.
65)
I flinch
every time you put
your arm around her,
every time you brush
the hair away from her face.
Because you used to touch
me like that–
like you loved me.
66)
I don’t just want you.
I need you.
67)
“A penny for your thoughts?”
“No need, darling. We both know my thoughts already belong to you.”
68)
The boy in my daydreams
is the not the same boy
who occupies my reality.
For the boy in my daydreams
loves me in a way
you never could.
In a way you never would.
69)
I have two great vices in my life:
- Rum and
- Loving you.
—I can’t decide which one is worse
70)
Love is supposed
to give you a reason to live.
It is not supposed to make
you wish you were dead.
71)
BREAKING NEWS:
GIRL DIES OF A BROKEN HEART
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