she told him to be careful
with words like that
he's bound to steal
no break
a few hearts

she told him every stanza
brings a new girl with star crossed eyes
and an easily won heart
and each period ending his new poem
equals a box on his porch
with some poor girl's beating heart
bleeding through
staining the door mat

and each stained door mat
is just some girl's
lost hopes
and swooning mind

and so she warned him to be careful
for words mean so much
more to those with light hearts
and she knew that his words were nothing to him
but patterns of the keyboard
with a shift key
some punctuation thrown in.