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High School Sweetheart-break


‘L’ is for the way you left me, abandoning my heart leaving me to carry this emotional back pack. I was helpless, it weighed me down and like a vagabond I had nowhere to take heart-rending refuge but a home I built out of anger with walls of stubbornness and a roof made of woe. ‘O’ this is pain I will never forget Until this day I will never know how many girls you’ve slept with, not including the one you got pregnant. I watched you be negligent with hearts and I guess I wasn’t good enough from the start. You looked me in my eyes and told me that you – lust! That’s what it was! That’s what had you carrying other girls’ textbooks? ‘V’ for how very keen you were to pursue them did you value me at all? I was the good girl you were the bad guy, I see why you left. You wanted climb up my beanstalk and awaken my golden egg but I kept it sacred how very wise of me. My giants were on guard, being sure that you didn’t rob me of anything. ‘E’ for every time I let you in, there you go, breaking me again. You had many, yes plenty! What a shame. You pepped my rally then left me for the cheerleaders at the football game. Which is why at prom, I danced alone. Came, left, went straight back home. Years ago it seem like that was, I was in a freshman state of mind. Tears shed; wisdom was conceived, no longer blind. That advanced me to a senior, I got stronger, and God changed my demeanor. I graduated from pain, I’m not the same, and I’m healed. Lesson learned: Boys aren’t worth it. On your grades, stay focused! It’s a must! In the end, you’ll earn an A plus! Some things aren’t meant. Next time with my heart, I’ll be much more hesitant.
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