11 October 2008

Ode to Young Heartaches

can you be in love at 15
when all you know about
romance was read in books?
watched in movies?
how can every song agree on what
love is
when no two people i know
can describe it in the same words?
how is every poem getting right,
when i, who reads it all,
watches it all,
listens to it all,
can not?

could i really have been in love at 15?
all the signs point to no.
but if that's the case,
how come my heart felt
broken
like all the books
movies
songs
poems
said it should?