This Stupid Thing Called Love
Love.
There are so many things with a bitter aftertaste.
Like some types of dark chocolate
Like guava
Like Love.
Oh people are gonna talk about it
It’s the sweetest thing on earth…love is kind…love is patient…take it from me
Bullshit!
Love is stupid
Been there, done that.
Thirteen years old. My crush on Khalid Saif was crazy.
It was…love
The feeling was mutual…total bliss, I tell you
Then one day he came to school, morose
‘I can’t be with you anymore.
You are Christian
I’m Muslim. I’m sorry’
And then just like that,
I was dumped.
Sixteen years. It was pure love.
I couldn’t live without seeing him
He was crazy about me as well
Then I met his mother
Hatred at First Sight
That was the end of a great love story
Seventeen. Jerome
Sweet Handsome Jerome
Whenever I saw him my heart started thumping
My love was indescribable
He was my first
That night…ha!
I asked him a thousand times
‘Are you sure about this?’
He looked into my beautiful eyes and lied,
As he slid into my tight womanhood over and over again
And after the first, so many other times
One day he just got up and said he was done.
See what I said?
Love is stupid.
Nineteen years. Freddy.
I had my first abortion.
After that he just cut contacts with me.
I was
Heartbroken
I said to myself-
Never again.
No love allowed.
Who was I kidding?!
Twenty years.
Sam.
He was wonderful to me
And to three other girls in his workplace.
We ended with a nasty fight.
Love is stupid.
Twenty-two
I thought I’d changed
Andersen was a great boyfriend.
But he was different from the rest
He was a talker
He told people everything that was going on between us.
Private stuff
By the time we were done, people knew stuff about me even I hadn’t noticed.
Love…ha!
Then I said I’m done.
I met Howard. We had a wonderful relationship.
One night I got drunk, slept with his best friend.
The End.
He broke up with me through a simple text
‘You slut! Its over!’
Along the line I met Danny. He was a good one.
But it turned out he was gay
Nothing I did could please him.
Love is stupid.
I gave up on love.
But then…
Have you met someone
Someone completely different, THE ONE!
Someone if he would propose to you you’d say YES in a flash…!
Then all of a sudden
All communication is lost…not from your side
But his
Suddenly he’s just not that into you
And then you’re forced to pretend you didn’t like him that much
And you’re forced to pick up your heart which has been mangled.
Then he comes back, and you’re thrilled
He proposes, and you set a date
Your heart is in the right place.
You plan a beautiful wedding, all white everything.
And he never shows up
No explanations
Nothing.
Just a note sent through his apologetic mom
‘I’m sorry; I just can’t go through with this’
I’m here
In my bridal dress
Sitting on a bench. Thinking
I won’t go mad, not me
But this heart of mine
It’s turned into stone
I’m not going to do this thing call love again
All men are idiots
And their King dumped me on the aisle.
I’ll be fine
But no one is ever coming close to me
No one
Ever.
You want to judge me?
Do me a favour. Shut up.
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