Twitter user @heisawolf — aka Juansen Dizon — asked me to write a #freepoem for him today! I haven’t gotten a request in a bit, so as soon as I had a moment I launched into it.

Just to preface this first poem, I’ve been learning Python, a programming language, on Codecademy.com (awesome resource, by the way!). I will paste the text below, but you really should look at the picture to get the poem in its true form.

falling_in_love(process)

boy = “open”
girl = “open”

def falling_in_love(process):
if process == “ideal”:
boy = “in love”
girl = “in love”
print “They live happily ever after.”
# Who believes in fairy tales anymore?
elif process == “complicated”:
boy = “in love”
girl = “not ready”
print “He hurts.”
# The likely outcome.
elif process == “better off”:
boy = “doesn’t notice her”
girl = “not ready”
print “They never love, but they never hurt.”
# Wouldn’t he rather?
else:
print “Uncharted territory.”

falling_in_love(“better off”)
# Sorry.

My second poem has a bit of a more hopeful tone.

sometimes

sometimes
he likes her
like a lot

sometimes
she doesn’t
feel the same

sometimes
sometimes
it works out

Feel free to request a #freepoem of your own! Contact me on Twitter @GeorgiaTell or submit to my contact form!