I Was Born to Break Your Heart

You carry a defiant look in your eyes

Shielding a heart that has been broken

Over and over again.

You don’t have a sense of grace about you

And I can feel your longing like tendrils

Reaching for an anchor

In me.

I was born to break your heart, though

You don’t quite know it yet. It won’t be

Through abuse, or me being a general asshole,

But it will be through awkward silences

Like a poem punctuated with

shitty line breaks

and a

 

staggered sense of

timing.

 

Basically, I’m just saying that I’m

Just a douchebag who will disappoint you;

I just won’t be mean about it.

But you knew that when you first kissed me,

Didn’t you?