We’ve all been there before. You screwed up. You know it. She’s hurt. You did something stupid or selfish. You want to make it better, but “I’m sorry” just won’t cut it. You really want to make it up to her. Well here’s how you can do it with short love poems and some added quivers to help you out.

Now first, you must know the scale of the problem you’ve created. If you accidentally ran over the dog she’s loved for the past 10 years, it might take a bit more to open her heart to you again. If you slept with another woman, then reading this article won’t help you one bit. Go get a therapist and a baseball bat to whack yourself in the head with. If you forgot an anniversary, then you may have some work to do or if you said something to hurt her. Now if you just forgot to pick up your clothes, you may have an easier go of it.

You must first seek to understand her. That is the key in all of this. Seek to understand. Don’t seek to make it better. Seek to understand WHY she is hurt. Now it may be obvious what you did, but WHY she is hurt can vary from woman to woman, and it’s important that you get the WHY and the extent to which she is hurt. It is very important you understand her emotionally, not just the words she is saying.

Next, women will almost always ask why you did what you did. As you know, this is not good territory for you to stay in. As men, we know we screwed up. The answer for most of it is we either weren’t paying attention, didn’t have our attention on our spouse, or we did something selfish. The main key is not to explain why you did it, but how you’re not going to do it again in the future. And with this, actions speak louder than words, so make sure you don’t do it again and you get better! It’s important that she feels reassured in this and can trust you here.

Once she’s beginning to regain trust in you and has began to come back to loving you, that is the time in which you want to give her the short love poem that you’ve written. Nothing glamorous. Nothing spectacular. The romantic message or the love words you write should be sincere, simple, and reassure her with placing her trust in you. This is why I recommend giving her the poem AFTER you take steps to make it better.

As long as you are sincere and consistent in your follow-up and your partner truly can trust you, then any short love poem you write will go over well. If you don’t take those steps beforehand, then your romantic message will seem like a shallow cover-up for what you don’t want to face. And that doesn’t really work for your relationship to last or be fulfilling long-term.

So make sure you take all the necessary steps to mend the mistake. After that, your short love poem will feel like icing on the cake to her that will be the last touches on opening her heart back up to you.