How to Hurt a Heart: Make Love

For Juliet

I still wreak of the love that we made.
It still really hurts the heart that I gave.
My veins are pumping dead black blood.
It's a gift opened to soon, that should've been saved.

Is it still making love
If when you made love
You weren't in love?
What's the difference
Of hurting a heart
If you hurt the heart now
Or hurt it then?
When she gives what you swear you don't want
It seems like it can never end.

Do you remember when we had just met?
It seems like only weeks ago.
At school your conversations brought me to life.
And your adoration showed you things of which I had naught.
I need to break this last kiss.
Inevitable
Is the stab I feel, after each kiss.

Is it still making love
If when you made love
You weren't in love?
What's the difference
Of hurting a heart
If you hurt the heart now
Or hurt it then?
When she gives what you swear you don't want
It seems like it can never end.

You never loved me.
I never loved you.
You just loved being in love.
I just loved feeling your love.
I should never have given that first kiss.
Why-oh-why do I always start this.
I wish I had never had my first kiss.
I hate my mouth for touching those last lips.
Their poison on my tongue.
There's death on my breath.
My eyes draw you in.
And then I murder me in our bed.

I don't think I ever loved
Or have ever been loved
Because it isn't love
If you won't give enough.
Everybody's willing to give their bodies or their soul.
But I don't think that's what love's about.

Is it still making love
If when you made love
You weren't in love?
What's the difference
Of hurting a heart
If you hurt the heart now
Or hurt it then?
When she gives what you swear you don't want
It seems like it can never end.

© 2009 Dennis Shanaberg

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Dillon Cotter

it really got me into this poem after like 2-3 lines, and it gives a informitive and natural udnerstanding of love and what some of us think love really is. i like this dude, really good.