Because I Love You

High School

A time of finding yourself and finding friends

Becoming someone your younger self could be proud of

Someone that you’ll tell your children about

Hearing teachers tell you the best advice you’ll ever hear

Yet what teachers don’t tell you

Is that high school and the boys attending

Break your heart

Because of the crushes you’ll have

The boys that don’t like you back

And boys that like you for what you’re not

They like you for your looks, and not your insides

They like you for a selfie you posted

They’d rather have a short conversation than an intellectual one

Not even one about how strong your faith in God is,

or if you love your parents

They don’t want someone who loves the important things

But rather the unimportant things

Unimportant things such as wondering if you’ve had your first beer

If you’ve ever kissed someone

Or if you’d ever want to hang out

High School boys were made to teach you a lesson

They have no sincerity and are hormone driven

They lead you on, and feel no remorse

When breaking up with you, they tell you that you deserve better

And you think to yourself yes I do

A highschool boy becoming infatuated with you is not love

Love is not falling for the feeling of someone

Love is finding someone who loves you from head to toe

Someone loving how your nose looks when you laugh

How your eyes look staring into theirs

And is not just falling for how someone looks

Instead of boys saying you deserve better

They should say you deserve someone who will love you for what you are

After heartache,

You think, will I ever find the one? You feel hopeless

Yet you move on, and then again and again

You realize what you deserve is better than what you get

You realize what you deserve

Is someone to be sincere in their thoughts and actions

Someone who will choose water over beer

Someone who will love every flaw

Who will pray for and with you every day

Someone who will go through hell and back for you

And when you ask them why

They say because I love you