The Forbidden Fruit

i fell deeply in love with a man, then later found out he was married.I know many don't feel bad for this mistress, but I truly didn't know i was a mistress, for month, devastated learning truth.

I fell in love,

With forbidden fruit

But I didn't yet know,

It was forbidden.

Love entangled in a web of lies

While the truth was at its core,

So deeply hidden.

I was the secret mistress

When I thought,

I was the well known lover.

All those deep-rooted emotions,

While he deflowered me,

Through the white silk covers.

Not knowing he had a wife and kids,

I felt like filth when I learned the whole time,

His obsession with me came from putting me above her.

Never in a multitude of decades,

Would I have called myself naive.

Not until she pulled back the curtains,

Along with their 8 years of solid receipts.

He said he was in love,

He said with me he felt it to be true.

With pure blindness,

I showed him my sacred poetic secrets,

When he wrote one back,

That day I deemed our so called love,

To be more then a ruse.

Anaya,

You're supposed to be cold hearted,

Anaya,

You were only supposed to only take a small bite.

Instead I ate the whole fruit wanting more,

Now I sit here in my sorrow,

Filled with desolation, and spite.

Tears riding my sorry brown cheeks

Reminiscing of his hand running down my spine.

Imagine how foolish I felt,

When I came to realize,

The fruit wasn't exclusively mine.

Author's Note

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Reviews

[Elaine]

Vulnerable and very raw write. I really like the stanza "With pure blindness I showed him my sacred poetic secrets, when he wrote one back, that day I deemed our love to be more than a ruse."
And for what its worth - I'm sorry (for the experience - not for your amazing write)

[Anaya]

Thank you. I felt like a total fool after this experience. But hey, sometimes you get the short stick. Your feedback is appreciated