First Kiss. First Heartbreak.

You were my first kiss
You told me at homecoming:
I hope you'll remember
This first kiss forever.1

Unfortunately, it's true.
I still remember the kiss,
The fluttering butterflies
And the chill down my spine.2

I remember at the movies
In the last row, you and me.
Sitting, kissing, caressing,
Your hand creeping up my shirt.3

Maybe we're not meant to be.
It's like Romeo and Juliet
Modified to fit our story
Soon to be forgotten by all.4

We can't meet because of me
And my parents' disagreements
But in my dreams I see you
I hear and feel you in my heart.5

People can call it a cliché
Yet another teenage drama.
In my mind, though, it was real.
Everything is real still.6

I miss your fingertips
Gently stroking my face.
Your whispers of I love you
Linger in my head.7

I yearn for your company
Because I can’t get you out
Of my head and my mind
The cause of my tears remain.8

I told you that I can’t see you
And that I can’t speak to you.
The truth is, I can but I won’t
Because I don’t know right now.9

I see you everywhere I go.
I write your name constantly
And then I realize your absence
From my scarred way of life.10

You came to see me backstage
And I tried to ignore you uselessly.
How persistent you were to me
Because you didn’t stop until the end.11

I wish you hadn’t done anything.
Now it has become harder to forget
And to make it even worse,
You sent me a message that made me cry.12

You said hello and that I was still
In your mind and that I was your friend.
I wish I could say the same to you
Because in the end, it’s the truth.13

I love you and I can’t deny that
Maybe I’m pathetic for crying.
In my mind, you’re my first love
And my first kiss.

Author notes

Sorry this was so long...
This is free verse, which is 98% of what I write in. I just can't stand the thought of a verse with metrical patterns and rhyming schemes confining my thoughts.

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  • throttletheignition
    January 15

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    he loves you, too.
    he never stopped loving you.
    at least I don't think so.
    That made me cry. You're not pathetic for crying at all. I would do the same thing, in fact, I do. For that one guy. Your parents can't stop you from being happy and his parents can't stop him from being happy. Sometimes I wish I had never introduced you two because that would have made life easier on everyone since you both are obviously hurting.
    And there's nothing I can do. I can't help people who do not want to be helped.

    Tell him, he won't push you away. He will always be your friend.


  • sodancewithsoda silver member
    January 1

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    woot

    I can relate with some of the things here I'm not saying which ones, hahahaha...

    Honestly, I think we write the most beautiful when in love or when in pain FROM love - again, I think it's because that's when our emotion is most raw, where our souls, heart and body are perfectly in sync with each other.

    Free verse or semi rhyme-y, your words are in sync with me, one of your readers.
    Thanks for sharing this


  • emperess27
    January 1

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    I loved it!! It was so bittersweet!! I love reading these poems, and they always make me think of my first love. Thanks for writing this, I really do like it. Btw, I love writing in free verse too, I feel that you can get alot more across that way. Kais x x


  • trekkergirl
    January 1

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    Freeverse is good. That's what I write into too. I do like this. Thanks for sharing this and thanks for entering it into this contest.