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Teenage Heartbreak

A poem from a teenage boy

By Alejandro Bejarano VelascoPublished 5 years ago 3 min read
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I wrote this poem when I was 14 years old for my literature class.

One-sided love is dangerous, but it is even worse when it happens on the first time you fall in love.

This poem shows how unrequited first love can break a teenage boy's heart, drowning any positive views about love...

I am translating this poem from Spanish:

"I tried kidnapping your love, hoping that there was no rescue and for passion to be born, but I was a bad thief because I couldn't steal your heart.

I was so close to you and at the same time so far away. I tried getting closer to you, but you just walked away.

What did the other thieves of your heart do that I didn't? What could I do to posses just for a moment your unattainable heart?

I wish I could listen to your silence, and see your absence. I need your existence to smile! I need you to live!

I can't stop thinking about you, neither in the day nor the night. Those nights where only the moon can admire your beauty, and those nights were love beats resentment, and once again I fall into you. And those days... those days where I feel lucky to love you, my eyes fortunate when I see you, my mind blessed to think about you, and my heart happy to beat faster for you.

...But I have to wake up, open my eyes and see reality. I need to understand that you don't like me. I need to abolish the idea that I will love and wait for you forever. I need to relinquish what my heart expects and listen to what my mind says. I need to understand that you are my Juliette, but I am not your Romeo.

So please tell me how to forget you, how to forget these past years of deep love. Tell me how to give up on what I want the most in my life. Tell me how to give up on a beautiful feeling that many wish to feel.

And if I can't get over you, tell me how I can replace you. How can I take out of my mind that you are unique, that there's no replacement for you! That no one replaces carbon with gold! That it's stupid to find a pearl in the shore and let it fly with the wind just to conform with sand.

Please tell me how to let you go, not from me because I never had you, but from my thoughts, my dreams, my smiles, my happiness, and my life...

I try to stop thinking about you for a moment, about how perfect you are, about my best thoughts, my most amazing dream. And little by little I am waking up. Little by little I am freeing myself from this jail of love. This jail in which I was a prisoner of your love, just as the moon is a prisoner of the night and the sun is a prisoner of the dawn.

As I am waking up, I realize I will never forget that with you I found what any man seeks in his entire life: perfection, happiness, and love. A love that was my major wealth, that couldn't be sold nor bought.

I will never forget about your hair, your eyes, your body, your smile. Everything that was untouchable and prohibited to me. I will never forget that type of love that is called childish for some and real for me.

Even if I meet many women, you will always be my one and only. I am sure about that...

I invite you to love, not to me, but to someone that can make you feel what I couldn't make you feel. Someone that makes your life happy and perfect. Someone that is a good thieve and can steal your heart as much as you stole mine...

You were the "X" of my equation that I couldn't find an answer to. You were my past, my future, but you are not my present anymore. "

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About the Creator

Alejandro Bejarano Velasco

Just an old soul trying to improve the way we see the world, others, and ourselves! Vegan. Traveler. Photographer. Dreamer. Activist. I have a deep understanding of people and the world around me. Always woke!

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