Love is funny the way that it works

The way it consumes your life, especially at first.

You are happy, as happy as you’ve ever been.

You tell your family and each of your friends.

You see him daily and time seems to fly

You think he is perfect and do not know why:

Why he chose you, if you deserved him

How you got so lucky to have found such a great person.

Months passed by, milestones you’ll never forget.

Endless dates and fun that made it all worth it.

All the time spent looking for love,

You finally found it, like a gift from above.

People grow, whether it is together or apart.

People grow and experience a change of heart.

To love someone so fully that you lose yourself,

To do anything to make them happy even putting aside your own health.

You choose to look past their flaws and the fights,

You hope to be with them for the rest of your life. Naive, some may say, but others deny

Love is possible if only you try.

Try as you might, it won’t always succeed.

Love doesn’t prevent any acts of greed.

Despite what you give them and all that you are,

The love that you have will only go so far.

You start to feel distant and more of a friend.

You miss them like crazy as things come to an end.

What a surprise it was when he called your phone,

To tell you it was over and that you were alone.

At least that’s how you felt as you sat on the floor,

Crying and crying until tears were no more.

You wonder what went wrong, if you were enough, What you had done and what about love?

Confusion, sadness, anger, and fear.

Everything ending after a year.

A year of love and happiness you will never forget,

Hundreds of memories you’ll never regret.

He was so amazing and you weren’t enough,

He simply needed more than your love.

You see him move on, so easy it seems

Yet you can’t believe that it wasn’t a dream.

Family, friends, and strangers reach out,

But all you can do is scream and shout.

You feel worthless, as if life won’t go on,

But you’ll soon find out that you are wrong.

It takes time to heal, to love yourself.

Spend time with friends and do anything else.

He is not worth it, you deserve the best.

Forget about him and all of the rest.

If only it were that easy, forgetting the pain.

But it isn’t that simple and thoughts fill your brain.

How to move on is all you want to know,

But answers don’t help and you feel so low.

To heal could take months and that is okay,

But if he comes back, stay far away.

I learned this the hard way, and lost trust in men.

I let him back in and got hurt again.

The pain I felt was unlike no other,

So broken and empty, not wanting another.

This time around, I found out some news:

He had cheated on me and I had overlooked the clues.

How could you do that, to someone you love?

And keep it from them when they felt less than enough?

To watch them suffer and grieve over the love they had lost,

When you did a thing that was horribly wrong.

The worst kind of person, I hate you, I said.

You were my first love and my very best friend.

To this day you have yet to explain,

The words and the thoughts that had went through your brain.

I know we are young and “love” is unlikely

But I adored you and dreamed of what might be.

High school is the time to learn from these lessons

To make decisions based on your own discretion.

How could you do that to me?

The person you loved and who loved you so dearly

Pain forced me to grow, to move on and forget.

To learn to be alone and to never regret.

Always belittled and made to feel weak

Yet I have so much within my reach.

I am incredible, I truly am.

Smart and beautiful, too much to cram.

I do not miss you as this was for the best.

Being with you taught me lessons to stress.

I now realize that you were only holding me back

‘Cause  you were jealous that I have all that you lack.

Beauty, humor, intelligence, and grace.

I cannot say that being with you was a mistake

But love is blind and that you now know

So love who you are and be what you hope.

Love is funny the way that it works

Some say it’s magic, and others say it’s the worst.

Trust what you feel and love all that you are,

Never let others decide who you are.