Popular Poems About Forbidden Love

Today, like any other day, I'm running around in circles, thinking of you.
I'm hesitant to verbalise it out loud, fearing what others might say or do.
It makes no sense, I know, to yearn for someone long gone.
You vanished without saying a word, leaving me with just this empty dawn.

You took a piece of me, the part that loved you best,
The part that cherished every moment, every laugh, every rest.
I've tried to fill the void, but nothing seems to fit.
The ache within me grows, a constant gnawing pit.

Your silence is a heavy chain, that...

The Bard of Avon in Hamlet has
Polonius saying to his son, Laertes:
"This above all else: to thine own self
be true. And it must follow as the night
the day. Thou canst not then  
be false to any man."
THIS
is a message for YOU my loved,
sought, and coy one. It's okay to
admit that you hunger and desire to
taste the pleasures that dare to transgress
the halls of your humanity and create
a falsehood  that resists and keeps
YOU locked in a cage of denial.
ADMIT
what your racing heart and locked up ...

We are sunbathing in the hammock
you are laying on top, using me as a mattress, reading me a story from your short stories book.
I am listening to them with closed eyes, cupping your breasts, my fingers circling, massaging your nipples.
A butterfly rests on your shoulder.
Arshad

The two of us came
From the loneliest place
Deep shadows within the city
Brought to light by your face

Those eyes and lips, equal starlight
Who knew how this could be found?
Still haunted by your presence
Though you are six feet underground