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A Love Story
Here’s a simple story
 About this girl and a boy
 It’s just like all the other ones
 About the one that got away
 
 They met late in April
 One bright day after school
 Like magnets they were pulled together
 Tugged by some invisible tether
 
 Sleepless nights
 Playful fights
 And flirting all the while
 It happened fast
 And just like that
 To think it started with a smile
 
 Summer came, so very soon
 They were dating by the fifth of June
 One date and then a month apart
 She already figured he’d break her heart
 
 On a sultry night
 It reached its height
 In a darkened barn
 In each other’s arms
 She’d never seen such a beautiful sight
 
 Then in August
 It turned to dust
 It simply fell apart
 It hurt, but hey she already knew he was going to break her heart.

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I thought this poem was rather sweet, I think because it's a simple story which acknowledges its simplicity; few poets know to do that. Tying in the months gave the reader a sense of time and the way it affects love. That second to last stanza admitted that every story has its pinnacle, yet the last shows the reader that the subject was always aware that it would end. Rather like DeVotchka's song "How it Ends" (listen to that!). Memorable, this is.
