Silent Screams

Poem58

Love poems seem empty to me
How do we string words together
For someone other than ourselves

I have never written them
I don't plan to write them
Because they are empty

Compliments given in them
Are much too bland and general
Talk of love is overrated

We speak of physical beauty
And praise their eyes
Praise their body and yet

We never truly speak of their mind
We romanticize ordinary features
And pretend to love them

Love poems are empty
They are much too cliche
Yet they're a big deal

I could not tell you
Why I hated them so
Maybe because I didn't write them

Or because I never had a subject
To dote upon
Other than myself

I have not written them off completely
Don't get me wrong
But love poems are hard to make

Love poems are hardly real
But maybe someday
I'll write one