[Old and Unreadable] Max's Thought-Provoking Poetry

Tenderly Fixed

You should probably read 'Tenderly Broken' first...   

There once was a boy with sandy hair and blue eyes

He came and went from the light blue sea

With an intriguing smile and infectious laugh

He broke a girl's tender heart

Shunned by many for the broken shipwreck he left

He received no remorse those closest to him

But why would he live a double life?

Why would he throw away his love?

A two-faced, backstabbing liar the girl thought him

But she would never know the truth

The storm in the bay was nothing

To the storm inside his own tender heart

Three weeks hence his sister vanished

On a trip to a foreign country and never to be seen

Racked with bone-shaking anxiety

He stared at the needle-like constellations that night

They twirled and he waited for the worst

As humans pathetically do

Days and days past of the cheerful, clear morning

Nights and nights past of the peaceful, orange dusk

Though they were anything but that for him

He was swollen, purple and throbbing

A dying but walking wound

His woes were widely felt among his boat

And there was blood on the floor later that week

Another close to him

Now, with his mother gone and father left

His sister vanished and sitting deep in debt

Do you see now?

He made mistakes, who wouldn't in this state?

Intoxication was an escape 

That lead to more heartbreak

For once the tender girl had gone

Faded into the mist

He lost the passion to go on

And he too faded to uncharted seas

The mists consumed his tender heart

It grew brittle and cracked at the seams

It corroded and crumbled, like seaborn rock

And he lay helpless

He was just as fault as the girl, however

Perhaps in a world where we were not so quick to judge

Both their hearts would be tenderly fixed...