True Love?

I wouldn't want to be like Juliet.
Is a crush really something to die from?
I mean REALLY, they had just met,
It's so over the top, and VERY dumb.
And Romeo, PLEASE!  What were you thinking?
Was your life only worth a pretty face?
You don't even think twice about drinking?
You never even got past second base.
All I can say is they were WAY too young,
They didn't know first love's not eternal.
They got high on emotion and they clung
despite hurdles, no matter how painful.
Romeo and Juliet, Romantic?
Or two manic kids whose end was tragic?

Response to #109

Drawing on Emotion

Sometimes I think I am a stone

A person too simple to like,

I thought emotions were like froth

Surging up, not buried alone

Beneath infertile gound, I strike

With a shovel, yet can't sunder,

I can't even shoulder my phone

So I don't question what my psych

Brunt as it is says about me,

I wish I could be Hercules

Strong enough to feel what is me

By Brandy Reeves