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Haikus for High School Boys

Kiss her. Kiss her. Kiss

her beautiful and let her

nestle in your arms

 

Bring your bristly mouth

to ours, and give us the stars

we've been waiting for.

 

Sing. Take the guitar

and strum the strings but careful;

we might fall in love.

 

 

 

You deserve credit

for your courage and backbone.

Boy, you are so strong

 

You don't always have

to be tough, and hold it in,

be the strong silent type

 

It's okay. Let go.

Yes, being a man is hard

but you can let go.

 

 

 

Boy, please know your virtue.

You bring food to our famine.

The hunger, the thirst.

 

Who wouldn't want you?

Whose wicked appetite

couldn't you answer?

 

 

 

If you're wondering,

well, boy, the answer is yes.

She still loves you.

 

There were signs, signals

but you just couldn't read them.

She still loves you.

 

Why must you always

complicate love? Just take it.

Just take it and smile.

 

 

 

Boy, are you aware

of how destructive you are?

We could die for you.

 

Should we blame her?

Blame Aphrodite for this,

this pain and longing?

 

 

 

Boy, you're beautiful.

Limbs and muscle and talent;

we will never understand.

 

You are not flesh, blood.

You are made of energy,

and you can bring light.

 

You can give so much.

A feeling, a beginning,

a home, an escape.

 

You give nirvana,

with a love so tremulous

and complicated.

 

 

 

Boy, you're everything.

The might-have-beens, the maybes,

and the what-could-bes.

 

You are our focus,

our soothing sense of being,

simple, instinctual.

 

Boy, you are so much.

Millions of poems have been

written just for you.

 

We want to know you

collect little pieces of you

and memorize you.

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Written by
laetitia
French
Published
Jun 12, 2013
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