Why must I conform to society’s ways?

Why must I believe in something I do not think is real?

Why is it that when I say, “I don’t believe in love,”

People automatically look up and try to change my mind?

They ask if I’m joking

I tell them no, I do not believe that love is a real thing

They tell me to look at my parents,

They ask, “Are they not in love?”

I tell them no, they are not

They say that I lie, but I do not.

They don’t know the things I have seen,

The fights I have heard,

They don’t know my past, because I chose not to tell them

They call me a liar, but I tell them it’s the truth

They ask, “How can you not believe in such a beautiful thing?”

So I ask them,

“Why should I believe in something that I have never experienced?

Why?

Why should I believe in something I know I will never have?

Why?

For every one that I love, hurts me or leaves me.

Why?

Why do we love when it just hurts us?

Why?

Why does something so beautiful hurt so badly?

Why?

If love is real, then why do people get divorced?

They swear at the altar, ‘till death do us part,’

Yet they break that promise by signing a paper

People give their hearts away like it is nothing, a toy almost,

Like it is something that can be played with

Explain to me how one day a man and a woman can say they love one another

And the next, they are fighting like it is war.

Explain to me what love is because I don’t know

I don’t know how to love someone because they will only break my heart

Teach me how to love again,

I have been broken one too many times.

Teach me what love is so I can feel it again.

I am broken, I have forgotten what love is, so show me

Love me like they do in the movies

Make my life complete,

Make me whole again.

They say “all you need is love”

So show me what that’s like.

Fix me, fill in the cracks.

Protect me like I am yours.

Don’t be the one to make me give up forever.

Why must I give in to society?

I refuse to give in,

Help me change my mind.

Stop me from asking why,

Hold me like you actually care.

Make me change my mind about love.

Show me how to love again.