This Is Not Love

we listened to sad love songs wrote miles of forbidden romances prayed to have our heart broken by you-know-who because we were told to think tragedy is beautiful

then it happened

and you romanticized bullets flying through the air slit wrists losing your mind raw throats piles of laundry life willingly spent in a prison of aluminum foil for the ones you loved

but i learned that tragedy? tragedy sucks ass and the people who tell you otherwise can go fuck a chainsaw.