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Forbidden Love
Love was never easy,
Hardly painless.
It hurt more,
When I loved without permission.
How cruel god is,
To make him so beautiful.
How clever,
To make him so unobtainable.
He dances on thick ice,
His feet shake the ground.
I shiver in the cold,
He glows in blue.
He isn’t beautiful like a woman,
But a different kind of beauty that exists only in firelight and darkness.
He’s beautiful in the sense that he looks like art,
I’m forbidden to sketch him.
He is beautiful like the red sky after a fire,
He is beautiful like the sun during an eclipse.
He is beautiful like wreckage of an earthquake,
Beautiful like a snake in the weeds.
I cannot admire the beauty,
Cannot look at it.
He will destroy me,
He is venomous.
He sways with the music,
He moves hair from his face.
I map the blue tones in his skin,
The shapes I ache to sculpt.
How cruel god is,
To have him dance on thick ice.
Knowing he glows in blue,
Knowing I’ll shiver.
Hardly painless.
It hurt more,
When I loved without permission.
How cruel god is,
To make him so beautiful.
How clever,
To make him so unobtainable.
He dances on thick ice,
His feet shake the ground.
I shiver in the cold,
He glows in blue.
He isn’t beautiful like a woman,
But a different kind of beauty that exists only in firelight and darkness.
He’s beautiful in the sense that he looks like art,
I’m forbidden to sketch him.
He is beautiful like the red sky after a fire,
He is beautiful like the sun during an eclipse.
He is beautiful like wreckage of an earthquake,
Beautiful like a snake in the weeds.
I cannot admire the beauty,
Cannot look at it.
He will destroy me,
He is venomous.
He sways with the music,
He moves hair from his face.
I map the blue tones in his skin,
The shapes I ache to sculpt.
How cruel god is,
To have him dance on thick ice.
Knowing he glows in blue,
Knowing I’ll shiver.
Published 8th Jun 2024
Author's Note
When it feels almost intentional, how cruelly beautiful someone is that you cannot love.
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Anonymous
9th Jun 2024 2:53am
I have a guy like this in my life, he is completely mesmerizing and I could fall into his abyss forever if I were ever permitted to wander in his perfection.
I purposefully hold back. In my case, it's the right thing to do.
Though, forbidden in a different way, your write is so beautifully relatable.
I purposefully hold back. In my case, it's the right thing to do.
Though, forbidden in a different way, your write is so beautifully relatable.
