| When writing breakup poems, we must first ask | | | | simply be able to express the sadness, pain, and loss |
| ourselves this question: is it worth it? Just consider it | | | | brought about by the breakups. They should not in |
| - writing a break up letter is hard enough, breaking up | | | | anyway give our partners (or would-be former |
| from a relationship is far harder - so why add up to | | | | partners) any further trouble by being cryptic and |
| the burden by writing breakup poems? Perhaps the | | | | undecipherable that the poor fellows would need the |
| only reason would be that the pain of a breakup can | | | | rest of their lifetimes to just realize that they are |
| be really severe that expressing it through poems | | | | simply being ditched through the poems! As one |
| becomes inevitable. The breakup poems become | | | | would say it straight face to face, or perhaps |
| vessels in some way, upon which persons suffering | | | | through a letter, try being simple too in breakup |
| from breakups can pour out some of their woes. | | | | poems! And by God, try not to write an epic! This |
| After asking that question, and should the answer be | | | | does not mean that you should just dish out a silly |
| in the affirmative, we can then proceed in writing the | | | | limerick - just keep in mind that you should not be |
| breakup poems. When writing, we must take into | | | | avant-garde about it by, say, experimenting through |
| consideration that our readers are our partners (or | | | | forms! |
| would-be ex-partners). This means that they are not | | | | The next and final question would have to be - is |
| literature majors, or brain surgeons (unless they really | | | | there a simple way of writing breakup poems, or a |
| are literature majors, or literary type brain surgeons), | | | | way of writing simple breakup poems? The answer |
| which further means that our breakup poems need | | | | to this is no, there is none, which is why I would |
| not be modern literary works of art. | | | | sincerely just advise you, dear friends, to face your |
| There is no point in slaving over the poems with | | | | partners and not hide behind breakup poems! In the |
| unreasonable painstaking efforts. The breakup poems | | | | end, an actual encounter would always weigh far |
| need not be our life's masterpieces. They should | | | | more than a piece of paper. |