Read a difficult book

to mend a broken heart

to tend a broken heart

To no longer pretend

love wasn't violence occasionally

Though it didn't look it

Contend

with that difficult fact

Stay. Stay there with

that knowledge. Portent

Should it become necessary to read it again

Should you happen across any more 

men. Who don't look it

But there are signs, aren't there?

But who wants to lament

at the beginning of a love story?

What a won heart won't do?

Invent every kind of ruse 

To fool whom?

Read a difficult book

to mend a broken heart

to tend a broken heart

Carol is a tea-drinker and walker