secret Love <br />the longing to look straight <br />into those bleary eyes <br />decimated by fear, <br />an anxious smitten heart <br />imperiled by the shyness <br />of teenage years. <br />a budding emotion <br />that suddenly ran riot <br />unsettling the world <br />inside and out. <br />in the dead of night, <br />i tried calming this <br />nocturnal storm <br />that beat down <br />in cyclic rhythms <br />into a torrent sea <br />of passion. <br />a one-man drama <br />in romantic sojourn <br />one mind plodding <br />into the silence <br />of the night <br />that echoed <br />even my breath <br />my desire. <br />the illusive warmth <br />from secret love <br />enshrouded me, <br />fragments of a fairy tale <br />i tried clinging to <br />for moments of <br />emotional sanity, comforts, <br />joy, estascy <br />all made up to soothe <br />a new heart so eager for adventure, <br />yet helplessly paralysed. <br />growing up <br />like pounding waves <br />washed out the footsteps <br />of a child straddling <br />on the beach of adultland. <br />from the years of <br />such self-indulged passion <br />i rinse out verses, <br />a light through prism, <br />the wonder of the rainbow <br />i savour more deeply now<br /><br />john tiong chunghoo<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/secret-love-9/
