The history of love poems:

I promised myself 
that I would not be 
the girl who writes 
love poems 
on the back of her palm, 

as I scribbled three 
simple words 
on the inside cover 
of a book, 

and fell in love 
with the way words were 
born from graphite 
and excess. 

But I think 
that when you fall in love 
every poem is a little bit of 
a love poem, 

because when you have 
so much of something 
it's hard to store it 
all in your rib cage, 

so you bury little 
pieces of it 
in pen caps 
and lined paper. 

The girl who 
wrote her first 
poem 
in a field lined with daisies 

would resent time 
for pushing her inside out 
and into the girl with ink 
smudged into the creases 
in the skin behind her knuckles, 

but I'm tired of 
trying to breathe with 
broken ribs. 
 

gaia_lenox

VT

YWP Alumni

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