Hesitant Hearts

I had promised my hand

To never touch

Another’s.

 

I begged my heart

To never beat for

Yours.

 

For you breathed danger-

Peril which I had already

Fallen upon.

 

But your eyes promised

Love

 

Something of endless

Feeling,

Boundless passion.

 

But my nails carved my skin

As I screamed for

Them to stop.

 

They urged me to

Look-

To smile-

To dance.

 

I was afraid,

For his eyes drove

Me to pure

Temptation.

 

What was I

To do?

 

Lay my lips

upon his?

Or vanish under

The sight of

Unending desire?

 

Reviews

[lightsong]

ah my dear, who really knows why and how Love happens, and why we fall in love with certain people, even if we think those persons are bad or dangerous, I believe there must be something in them which is tempting You, maybe completing You, even in a dangerous relationship, some finds it alluring, exciting to their senses, the pain always come when there is no balance between the mind and heart, when the heart says something, while the mind says another... I pray peace to find the way into Your mind and heart, Your poem was written so sincerely, faithfully, Your emotions are conveyed clearly, leaving us but to walk with You through Your journey of whys, personally special poem, the drawing fits it perfectly! is it Your own drawing?

[PandaPeaceful]

How I wish it was my drawing! I thank you greatly Light. Sometimes, love becomes frustration. I keep it in a cage to protect the water in my eyes. Because when I find the key to the cage, love becomes me- and pain always finds a way to destroy the love.

[Correspondence]

This is so well written, I think it connects to other distraught people as well as myself. I love this. A lot. Compelling and told from the heat.