Abington High School Student Arts Magazine MAY 2014 | Page 20

Life of love

by Tyler Moulton

You are the reason I smile,

But also the reason I cry.

You are why I want to live,

But also why I want to die.

A crush is born of insignificant adoration

And improved upon with persistent flirtation.

You've become the reason I smile.

A crush so often will turn into love

That we later wish to never speak of.

You've become the reason I cry.

So often love isn't shared

And so often for love is one side impaired.

For you I want to live.

Yet it is the one-sidedness that shatter,

Leaving the one side's poor heart battered.

For you I want to die.