Joystyless's "break to be broken" is a list of opposites and repeated pairs, and the repetition is what gives it weight. Pictures both tell and lie, colors heal and fade, hearts break and get broken. Nothing in the poem stays simple for long. Love is described as something that can't be fixed or healed, and it gets tangled up with lies: lying to protect someone, then being broken by the lies that love is full of.
The speaker sounds tired and a little bitter, but not entirely hopeless. The first half circles around damage, while the last four lines turn into short, almost like rules for living: break, heal, lie, scar. Each one has a purpose attached. Breaking leads to being broken, healing is for fixing others, lying is for protecting, and scars exist to tell stories.
The mood is quiet and heavy, like someone looking back on old hurts. Still, the ending suggests that pain leaves something behind. The scar becomes proof of what happened, and a way of telling it.