Meta Haiku

New term; new High School;

And the most beautiful girl.

Her name is Julie. 

Way out of my league,

yet, with time, a friendship grows.

Dare I ask her out?

Leaves crunch underfoot.

I know how they must have felt;

I too am falling.

Boyfriend and girlfriend;

Now we are rarely apart,

And I am happy.

Then three lonely weeks;

Her family fly abroad

For the long Christmas…

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Snow when she returns

But it is always springtime

In a heart in love. 

Two halves of a whole,

like yin and yang, black and white,

each in the other.

Our intensity

Worries our parents, we know;

Our lives though, not theirs.

My friend Sam tells me

I’m too young to be like this

As if I could stop.

This is love, not choice.

If it scares those around us,

Just think how we feel.

I love this passion,

But it’s too much for Julie.

I feel her pull back.

By the end of term,

Julie wants space, wants distance,

And I feel my heart…

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She won’t talk to me

And I feel empty inside

Hollow without her.

Weeks pass in silence

Summer, yet snow in my heart.

I am broken, lost.

I still go to school

But just because she does too

And I might see her.

There’s no new boyfriend

She’s as damaged as I am;

Halves without a whole.

So I write our tale

In these haiku and beg her

Please come back to me.