Love Poems

Love poems
They say
Are cheesy 
Cliche
Full of roses
And violets
And little men
Frolicking about
With arrows
And diapers

Love poems
They say 
Are meant
For the angsty
The teenage disaster
Cascading
Until you ask her 
Out to prom
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Love poems
They say
Can only be written on 
Napkins
And half done homework
Stained by Coca Cola
And skittles
And whatever that was
Your mom packed 
For lunch

So judge away
If you will
For the love poems
Will never care
Sappy and salty
Crappy and faulty
Always destined 
To get a little bit naughty

For they are all we have 
To fight the shadow of hate
That could never possibly 
Know
What it's really like
To write 
What could not be said
Without a gel pen
And a heart willing
To ask
Will you try to love
With me?