Our Forbidden Love

I loved you, but I would never tell  
The world including you because  
Although we were lovers there  

Was nothing else. My heart swelled  
With so much hatred because claws  
Scratched me and I could not swear  
 
To tell you that I was bleeding from  
The pain. I could never tell you that  
I was tired from loving the wrong  
 
Person who only showed their warm  
Smile, but never the war or combat  
They face every day. I was the song  
 
That cheered you up and the place  
You went to when you needed to  
De-stress from the world. It was our  
 
Secret as my fingertips would trace  
Every inch of your skin. Me and you  
Were once safe in our morning hour,  
 
Laying against your chest, hearing  
Your heartbeat, but we both already  
Knew that we could not stay. But  
 
Instead we were looking or peering  
Into something that was unsteady  
Like an old house without its guts  
 
Or foundation to stand on. We were  
An empty house that had no love  
Left. We were drowning in the sea  
 
And its cascading waves. The blur  
Of tears were too much. Like a dove  
We were flying too close and we  
 
Burned, but could never survive or  
Escape the feeling that this love was  
Forbidden or felt like a wrong turn.  
 
It was something I could not ignore.  
It was our last night when the buzzed  
Feeling wore off. I no longer yearned  
 
For something that left me so hollow.  
It was a hard pill for me to swallow.