a poem about love (with notes)

you loved me
we loved each other
but now you are dead

Notes: This was a poem of some type about love. You can tell because the first two lines use the word "love" and also "loved". The poem is probably about a girl, although it could also be about a dog or cat, or something else that dies, since that is the thing that happens at the end (death). It could be about a fish. They often die. However, it is probably not about a fish. The poem is short, consisting of only three lines. This would lead us to believe maybe the poem IS about a fish, since why would the author write more than three lines about a fish? If it was about a girl or child or dog or cat or horse it might be longer, but it is clearly about a fish. So really the object of the poem is to ask whether a fish can feel love. The answer is yes. It is sad when a fish loves someone and then dies. This is the emotion that the poem captured. The sad emotion of a dead fish. Although a closer reading of the poem will reveal that the poem is not per se about the emotions of the dead fish, but about the one who loved the dead fish. Why would somebody love a dead fish? This is what is called "poetic license" which is when the author makes us believe stuff that clearly is not true. Another example of poetic license in a poem about fish is in Dr. Suess's poem "One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish" because what are the odds that there would be exactly two fish - one blue and one red? Dr. Suess clearly did not know how to write a poem about a fish in the same manner as the author of the present fish poem. In conclusion, love is an emotion we do not often attribute to fish. But this poem makes us do that. That is why the emotional effect is so devastating, and also why the poem should not be read to small children or teenagers or old people or women.