ex's and oh's hugs and kisses happy smiles dreadful horrible cheerful winks subtle gestures telling of desire and passion barely contained restrained then released at which point like butterflies or their less attractive friends moths, they scatter and disperse and are gone leaving only bleeding hearts chapped, winter-kissed lips, peeling and stinging as they frown pretty.
at the time of writing, the author was unaware of the fact that the title of this poem was the same as a fairly well known atreyu song. he apologizes to everyone who was nauseated by this correlation.