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Apr 2015
"...Enraptured and terrified
Denied and deified
Salacious and sanctified

What have you done?"*

...loved and lived
sacrificed and given
my soul to heaven
my life to hell
my mind in a purgatorial cell
pondering decisions
I made so ******* well
I chose to try
not lie, but die
prayed for a future
that couldn't survive

All of my dreams
suffocating within
sacerdotal sheets of silk
singing with sin
my only desire
to be within
this licentious fire
of our friendship ablaze
A satirical embrace
within two hearts
compressing space
separate, yet one
what have we become
but cardinal sins
within our confessional?

022604~9.12p
My love and I spent a decade with other partners, yet never able to shake our attraction to each other. We tried being friends. We tried fading away from each other. Fate would not allow us to be apart, physically or emotionally.
This is my response to a poem she sent me, longing for connection. Clearly we were aware that it would destroy our current relationships and were battling these conflicting emotions.
M Crux Alexander
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M Crux Alexander  PDX, OR
(PDX, OR)   
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