I see you across a crowded room <br />My heart flutters, my cheeks flush <br />Everthing becomes sharper in my view <br />But I see, only you <br /> <br />The noise around me is deafening <br />I turn my back, can't afford to look <br />If I only stay away, Please dear God! <br />It never truly works.... <br /> <br />We are drawn magnetically together <br />Slowly skirting the room until <br />We are standing next to each other <br />But not looking, not listening <br /> <br />Laughing at someone else's jokes <br />Content to breathe the same air <br />Electricity plucking at the hairs <br />On our neck, until we can't help it <br /> <br />We brush together innocently <br />And the lightening strikes again <br />We carefully look into one another's eyes <br />Fleetingly lost in the depths <br /> <br />Then we move away, too scary.. <br />To be close like that, without.. <br />Being able to hold and feel <br />And jump on the ferris wheel <br /> <br />The dance of the cobra never ends <br />Your venom seeps through my blood <br />A dangerous rythm of ecstasy <br />This forbidden, consuming love <br /> <br />We were never meant to be <br />We lost the chance years ago <br />Not brave enough to test the waters <br />We will always yearn for what could have been <br /> <br />Decades pass and the passion cools <br />Separation is a gracious tool <br />No more contact, no more games <br />Until, you showed up again <br /> <br />You walked into the room <br />And like a fool, my spirit soared <br />When finally we spoke <br />The years melted away <br /> <br />But this time I had the power <br />You were lost, for words <br />You scrambled over pleasantries <br />Whilst I soaked the memories in <br /> <br />Good to know I still have <br />This affect on you, this <br />Wild and sad strength <br />You left and walked the wrong way <br /> <br />I laughed, in gentle acknowledgement.......<br /><br />Michelle Tiddy<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/old-forbidden-love/
