Shahana Jackson Poet Free verse

(teen Baby Boom Not Cute)

Love 
is fragile
babies 
are cute
but add on their
burden 
and than the love
begins to fizzle
weaknesses
surface 
 
             like a soggy pancake
            that once tasted sweet
              your love is bitter now
            You sometimes imagine
               what it would be like 
                 if you had chosen
                    a different path 

Maybe you can at least
dream that this isn't your life
 the babies crying grows louder
maybe it's because she misses her father
The girl he sneaks off to see 
is young vibrant and free
the girl you use to be  

                 Your trapped feeling sorry
                  trying to be the mommy that you
                         thought you could be 
                                at eighteen 

Lies are what he told you
when he said he would be there
Your heart is what broke
now that you know he doesn't care
  
                  Your mom warned you that an abortion
                   would be the best way out 
                   but you were in love 
                   you guys were gonna be
                   the perfect family  
                   at least it's what you thought. 


Sometimes love is fragile 
and than there's the times 
when it didn't exist to begin with

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