Have you ever wondered
What our lives
Would have been like
Had you been as free
As I?
Our eyes met
And we knew
We had found, too late,
Our other halves.
Our hearts have longed,
Our bodies have hungered,
Yet our love has remained
Chaste,
For you belong to another,
Someone you had chosen
Long ago,
When, as young men do,
You thought you knew
What love was,
Only to discover
There is a vast difference
Between the love of the spirit
And the lust of the mind.
To be near one another
Is exquisite torture;
Still, we are drawn together
By a force too strong to deny,
Eyes meeting with want,
Hearts, souls, and bodies
With need,
Kept miniscule miles apart
By the promise
Your honor refuses to break.
So our eyes meet,
Our hearts yearn,
And our dreams remain filled
With what might have been.
The keywords in your poem are, "Had you been as free as me." Being free makes all the difference when foolish promises don't pan out. Too many get hung up on unnatural vows that make life miserable for all concerned.
A timeless problem that your poem so clearly illustrates.
This reaches deeply within me since I am living it. It seems that the theme you share through your verses here is sadly, a universal and timeless one in this world/life. Love and best wishes,
My guess is we cannot take more than one such relationship in a lifetime. Mine cost me dearly and the pain never ever left me. I cover it in wine from time to time. I think I'll go uncork a bottle about now.
I loved him. At age twelve he touched my heart with his music. At age twenty he captured my heart when our eyes met as he sat on a stage and sang Four months later, he fractured my heart with his refusal to allow us to stay together. At age seventy
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Zeke Milligan is stuck between a rock and a hard place. He is desperately in love with Lynn, but a dark secret from his past continues to rear its ugly head. Worse yet, he persistently punishes the love of his life for events that took p
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A timeless problem that your poem so clearly illustrates.
Ron
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