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Breakup Poetry: From Heartbreak to Healed via InstaPoems

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Have you ever Googled “how to get over a breakup”? (Asking for a friend.)

Regardless of your age, the nature of your relationship, or reason for the decision, breakups are a time for reflection. You catch yourself going through all hues of heartbreak. You phase through denial, bargaining, anger, relapses, grief, and acceptance. We know we’re not the only ones who’ve read countless advice articles on how to cope– we bias toward the #girlboss, revenge-body school of recovery. But the classic art of poetry cannot be overlooked when it comes to healing a broken heart.

Women’s health, wellness, and lifestyle magazines all advise strategies like filling your calendar to stay busy, trying out a new hobby, connecting with old friends, exercising because endorphins make you happy, pampering yourself with coconut oil masks everywhere, etc. But it remains true: whether you are the one who ended it or are blindsided by it, there are (always) lessons to take from heartbreak. As Robert Frost said, “Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” From initial shock to full circle healing, break upers and break upee’s alike will relate to these poems and prose of heartbreak and healing, Instagram edition.

“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”

Robert Frost, OG heartbreak guru

A journey through heartbreak to healing, in poems:

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unconditional.

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I need you to know that it gets better. I need you to know that the way you flay your heart open for the world is brave, that the way in which you refuse to be anything but soft, even when you feel like you may just break under the weight of feeling, is why you are needed here. I need you to know that beautiful things are vanishing each day, and I am proud of you for fighting to ensure that your soul is not one of them. You need to keep fighting. I need you to know that you will find the places that leave every tender part of you feeling calm and at peace with who you are. You will find the places that inspire everything inside of you to surge and ache with the hope and the beauty of being alive. These places, they are not where you were born, but they will be where you are reborn. You will know when you have found them. My god, will you know. I need you to know that there are others like you in this world; others who are messy hearted, others who feel things intensely, and without hesitation, others who cannot contain all that they hold within the worlds of their mind because they have only ever known how to pour, how to shatter, how to give and give and give. I need you to know that you will find these people, and they will become your family — you will take care of each other. You will grow together, in the moments between breaths, in the stunning silence that blankets your souls when you connect with the fact that in a world of billions, in the middle of all this noise, you found each other. But most of all, I need you to know that we are all here, together, dealing with what is dark and light within us. I need you to know that you aren't alone. I need you to know that you are going to survive this. I need you to know that one day, you’re going to be sitting in a place you love, surrounded by people who inspire you, and you’re going to think back to the storms, and the hurricanes that rattled through your bones, and you are going to smile. The clarity will wash over you. You will be free. You will be free. ✨

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Heartbreak is an inevitable part of life. It grows our soul and allows us to flourish. Breakups are blessings hidden in (deep) disguise. In heartbreak’s case, most clichés hold truth. Time heals all. It wasn’t meant to be. Everything happens for a reason.

Find comfort in poetry knowing that even though it may feel like it, you’re not alone. Keep on keeping on, rockstars!

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