Poem based on the short story “Love Must Not Be Forgotten”  

By: Ari Neville, Block: A, English 11

True love is a mystery

Obvious fact or a misquote from the annals of history

Seems we will never know its true meaning

Is it carved into stone or just a simple feeling

Simple mathematical equation

Or the cause of human annihilation

In the end these questions really don’t matter     

Through careless hands we've caused fragile love to shatter

We marry the ones we truly don’t love 

An affront to love a direct shove 

Time has caused us to lose our hearts careful process of selection

To allow us to choose between fact or fiction 

 Looks over a lively personality     

Quantity over quality

Unknowingly we've nailed shut loves coffin

Love has fallen

Via dusty books it won’t be forgotten