We Are

We are
Sixteen.
How are we supposed to know?
We are
Young children.
What can we even know?
What can we know about love?
Or feelings?
Or sorrow?
Or happiness?
How are we supposed to know
How we feel?
How to act?
How to be?
Who says that we just know what even the
Adults do not?
We are sixteen.
How do we know love?
How can we say we are in love when
We are only teenagers?
How can we know that nothing will change when
We are so young?
How can we know that we are
Meant to be
When we have only surpassed the age of a
Mere child?
Do mere children
Love?
Do they
Need each other?
Do we?
How are we supposed to know any of this?
We are only sixteen.
Only sixteen.
We cannot know love.
We cannot know longing.
We cannot know true feelings.
We cannot know true sorrow.
If we say we do
Are we not just another teenage couple?
Are we not just like them saying that
We love each other?
We love.
So how can we know if
We are only sixteen?
We cannot.
We cannot know any of this.
So stop telling me that
You love me.
Stop telling me that I am
You're one and only
Because you cannot know that.
You just can't.