If I could cast a magic spell <br />To cover the deceit <br /> Protecting kin from any Sin <br />Then freely we could meet <br /> <br />Saved from hurt, the ones we love <br />A parallel we'd find <br />Where longing was a banished word <br />As nobody would mind <br /> <br />But no such trick exists <br />So surreptitiously we tread <br />Need outweighing guilty thoughts <br />no mention of it said <br /> <br />More sensible would be <br />To pinch the flame that burns within <br />Yet the sorrow that this idea brings <br />Extinguishes the sin <br /> <br />How cruel it is to have to choose <br />Each path carved through the soul <br />But one path shatters many lives <br />The other leaves them whole.<br /><br />Stevie Taite<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/longing-a-banished-word/
