"No Heartbreak Allowed." Poem by Eugene Pappan

You were my favorite hiding place
If love were a treehouse
We'd stretch our branches out like wings
I'd swing from us for hours
We'd tease the ground
until it were red in the face

"No Heartbreak Allowed."

I'd barricaded the mouth of our home
With the worse things we were ever called
We were all the other needed
But roots are concerned with plans

They grow
And so we did
When the fall came
You left
And I paid my debt to the ground in full