By Monica C. Voskamp
So tired of love
Always being a game
So tired of love
Never being enough.
Just tired of love
Not being what
It said it was.
My heart doesn’t want any more
Of these fickle heartbreak games.
So why is this
What draws me in
Is this all I understand
Love to be?
It leaves me spinning
Reeling one after another
These heart break games.
Does Disney lie?
Are all these love songs
Just a cover up?
Is the truth
Everyone is playing
The same guessing game?
Is the truth
There is no beauty
Love is just messed up.
Slammed down one too many times
Has left me here
In hurtful confusion, questioning.
I’m put off,
Searching for more
Yet always finding
The same.
A fling
A misguided hope
A wounded heart.
Is every love story
A social media picture
Living contrary to what it seems?
Is the truth rather this
Love is just plain messy
Not a one size fits all?
Maybe it’s both,
Fairytale and reality.
Love please don’t equate
To highschool guessing games.
Maybe it’s me
Maybe there’s more
Than what I’ve believed.
But where do you find this
When your heart is worn thin?
Where do you find new hope
Where do you even begin?
Maybe one day
A faraway someday
My eyes will see
Something different.
Maybe hoping in
A long shot wishing
My heart will experience
Something lasting.
Take the right risk
Try one more time.
Believe there is more
Than heartbreak lines.
Maybe I’ll still find,
In pieces that unite
A “you & I” possibility.
No more heartbreaks
Just a mesh of turbulent beauty
Doing life together.
Promising forever
And sure to mess up,
But at last is severed
Games of the heart.
Always hope. Always believe. Always love. ❤
*Photo Credit: Photo by Jonathan Petersson on Unsplash
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