"Betrayal can only happen if you love"
- John Le Carré, A Perfect Spy
- John Le Carré, A Perfect Spy
This poem I wrote was a few years ago when we had a poetry contest in my elementary school. Our teacher told us how we felt about lies or rumors. Well, I decided to interpret lies with that of a lover. This poem is about two people in love but have hidden secrets from one another. She loves him but needs to let go and he loves another but can't let her go.
My heart is a butterfly.
My heart is a leaf.
Both trembling as the wind moves it so.
You are my wind and I am the leaf.
I breathe but it's hard to release from here and beyond.
It breaks my heart to see you lost, to see you weak, to see you cry, but I can't.
I can't sympathize your loss, I can't feel your pain, I can't listen to your agony.
It's difficult, you see, to let go like a child and her favorite toy.
Your smile makes me weak and your tears make me flee.
I have pain in my heart that of a blade piercing the heart.
I must move on without your devotion,
I must move on without your comfort,
without your kiss and without your blessings.
You told me you loved me,
You told me you needed me;
Was is it all a lie?
She awaits by the church, draped in heavenly gowns and awaits her knight
in shining armor.
Love is unspeakable and love is strong like the mountain,
but mine is neither.
"I love you, you say", but it's too late to state.
4 comments:
That was very nice Lorita. Thank you for the comment, what our fathers did made us strong and a better person. Then again why must a man bring a baby in the world and whind up abandoning their own flesh and blood?
I know, exactly my point. You go through all that trouble to have the baby born into this world and deny them. It just makes me sick having to hear a man tell me that "he hasn't seen his child in a long time". However, we have both grown to be strong independent women.
You wrote this poem when you were in elementary??? Wow, that's pretty sick. :]
thanks, Kim!
Yeah, our teacher asked us to write our poem based on how we felt about love and betrayal. I know it sounds cheesy and all but I think that it relates to how two people really feel or do not feel about each other. "Teaches us more about the world around us."
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