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To Be A Hopeless Romantic In This Heartless World

A poem about the modern disconnect between head and heart.

Madison Shetter
May 09, 2016
Lindenwood University
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To Be A Hopeless Romantic In This Heartless World
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Our world is more disconnected from our feelings than ever before. We fear our true emotions because of the hurt that could come with their expression. We are more individualistic than ever and live our lives for ourselves rather than using our hearts to care for those around us. As a hopeless romantic I feel as if I am living in a society where my desire to care for someone is unusual, wrong, and looked down upon. But why? What has caused us to become so heartless?

To be a hopeless romantic in this heartless world

Is much like a jail

I am the prisoner

And this world is the law

I am stuck behind these gates

My heart is locked up

For it mustn’t feel

What it wants

Because to look for love in this world

Is surely a crime

The way of this world

Is to always think of “me”

Yet I have broken the law

Because I like to dream about “us”

My crime is that I think in color

Instead of the black & whites of this society

I dream of flutters in my stomach

And beatings in my chest

They seem to think I have replaced my brain

With my heart

Because I believe in the best

And the worst people

For I want to see their hearts

Before I know their ways

They tell me it will hurt

But loving is the only thing I know

I tried to be like them

But my heart always gets in the way

To give someone your heart

Is never enough anymore

There are only a few left like me

As this world turns grey

They tell us all

“Don’t look for love

it will kill you either way”

So I'll remain in these shackles

For the pleasure of this world

My heart mustn’t feel

What it wants

Yet it will never change

The way it wishes to beat

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