Love Lessons.

A Lola Poem.

Lola hands me a tissue & two aspirin.
“Here, it’ll make you feel better.”
Nothing can make me feel better,
my heart’s been ripped out of my chest.
“I know. But time will heal it.”
I just stare at her.
You don’t know that,
you don’t know anything about love.
Her eyes are wide and white,
mine are red and bleary.
We stare at each other,
two halves of the same whole.
One heartbeat but two entirely different people.
She is so naïve, so new to the world,
and I am so hurt, so jaded.
She takes my hand.
“You’re right. I don’t know.
But maybe you can teach me.”