The Truth of Teenage Love (a short poem)

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A small preface:

I think teenage heartbreak is one of the most abstract things in the universe, it doesn’t really make sense that it occurs, since we aren’t trying to love for the long term, and yet, it often hurts more then what we feel when we grow up. The formable parts of years are then spent in the fear of love, instead of embracing it. The truth of love, in my opinion, is that in our teenage years we have to get hurt. We need to feel the pain of a heartbreak to grow past it and develop an understanding that we then have in our adult years.

The Truth of Teenage Love

my heart was a paper mache pinata

made of the thinnest strips of newspaper

with watered down glue keeping it together

 

your heart was a baseball bat

contempt on breaking mine open

taking the contents like a child taking candy

 

my paper mache heart is so easily crushed

so i protected it

but it was different with you

 

i handed you the paper mache

i trusted you to hold it

 

you hung it up

and broke it with yours

 

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