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FORBIDDEN AFFECTION I relinquish myself each time I gaze into your eyes, perceiving feelings never recognized before. You're spirit pierces my heart completely, with a yearning that refused to retreat. I have found tranquility, which has come from no other, unrelenting exclusively while you are in my sight. Confusing emotions and yet powerful they actuate, decided devotion held intimately within me. You overflow my spirit with assurance and purpose, with uniqueness which I privately can't deny. Having a passion for you may only be an illusion, you are not within my reach; yet the desire will not pass. I am perplexed and intensely bewildered by you, knowing the boundaries are unyielding between us. I have searched laboriously to find peace and balance, now this discovery has taken me totally unprepared. You've brought out desperate and profound feelings, more than anyone has ever touched in an eternity. As intricate as reality is, they arise evident to me, affection for you, forbidden, yet I desire for it to ensue. This commitment is not ordinary in ways expected, perhaps only requesting that you love me as I am. For what I desire from you is respect untainted, a tender touch and the comfort of you close by. I know it is infeasible to experience all of you, by virtue of who you are and the limitations set before us. You have supplied me with adventures to glance at life anew, I honestly didn't anticipate this love I have for you. |
Additional Notes:
A poem I submitted years ago but stays on my heart.
This Poem was Critiqued By: James C. Horak On Date: 2007-08-07 12:31:55
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 10.00000
"For what I desire from you is respect untainted", the key to the concept of the
woman's "forbidden affection". Sadly it is in the female psyche an enculturation
towards self-defeat of idealistic love through seduction. Even towards father figure,
even towards the ultimate "forbidden".
Did you intend to give that away...and to the watchful eye of one as me, that clashes
with most romantics who have persuaded themselves such things cannot be?
And have you grown so well you would not despise that which might so inadvertently
fall prey to your charms...even were it inconsistant with "respect untainted". Even
more so, if it were to not?
That would place you well above those of your sex who rarely ever profit off what
they pursue most.
In the differences between how men and how women come to be abject servants to their
senses, are there any that really matter.
And is ever the "forbidden" anymore than self-betrayal.
Most of all, though, are you going to deny what's behind your intentions in writing
this?
A rich poem, rich most in honesty and in the aspiration to reach poignant truths
seldom touched.
JCH