Nobody taught us how to feel, what to say-- we just did it, and we figured it out together. You and me, always in it together. They don't teach us how to fall in love, and they definitely don't teach us how to fall out of it. If we had learned to control our emotions, how to treat each other right, maybe everything would've been different. But it's not, and trying to teach ourselves these lessons is only a reminder that we didn't know them in the first place. And it was never love, but they didn't teach us that either. So we go along, now with the new knowledge we didn't have before, and we keep learning.
I hope you enjoyed this poem! It was another short one, but I’ve recently written a lot of longer poems for my writing workshop and it’s been fun to experiment with short poems again. Please feel free to leave feedback and writing challenges in the comments. Stay safe and healthy out there.
Brooke
adventures of a typical high school student 