Before the Romantics

love was simple
love was easy

before
the romantics came in
and
made a big deal of it

they left
but
the fables didn't

and look at what they have done


everyone is a martyr
everyone is poet
everyone is a lovelost
everyone is a broken

because we have tried too hard
and we have gone too hard
and we have come back too hard

we have failed love on the way to the legend of love stories