answer me this then if you know that love is not suppose to hurt. Then how can hate love if that is not love then how can you hate love? What those people meaning(the guy and your mother) did to was not love. I know somebody how never hurt you did nothing but love you and want to be with you. You said that could not be love. Why because that person was nice and sweet kind and gentle. You close yourself off from people so they wont hurt you. Think about how that afectes the other person. You make them love you knowning that you will never give back the same love. Beacuse you say that you can never love. All I am saying is give real love a chance. Because all your doing is doing what those people did to you and that is hurt inoccent poeple.

Nice work lady.

Your rhymes do this poem justice, although I was afraid that they would give you problems. I was wrong. Congrats.

The beginning (your description of your family situation etc.) and the end (the period of reflection, of questioning) of your poem was the best. The middle seemed to drag on a bit and this sounds off: "See, who else but my mother presented it to me?

After all, we DID need money….desperately.

My mother was proud, although she knew it was wrong,

I was fifteen, he was twenty-eight….13 years difference is too long.

It was under the guise of “love”, sure he said he loved me,

He even wanted to marry."

Continue the good work!