Clandestine

A clandestine meeting at the park.
Within a love that only lived within the dark
and hidden places that they locked within their hearts.
A stolen kiss within the mist
before the touch and feel was lost.
And then the yearning ache, all unrehearsed.
As all too soon, they walked apart again.
Pocketed before they burned,
the little notes that said they cared.
Beyond their wills, becoming more aware.

Secret meeting in the park.
Lovers groping in the dark.
They could not believe that
it never would happen again,
even as the love turned into pain.
Promises that never would be kept
by frozen ways of life that must reject
the fact that even love was never perfect.
Within their stolen little moments out of time
as meant-to-be began to gasp and die.

Was this love...? So limited.
As more and more, the feel of
any excitation quickly disappeared.
All for the sake of unrequited fear
of oft' expected social devastation.
A tale told in endless variation of its strain.
As all the best of loving turned into the greatest pain.
Clandestine meetings lost within the dark.
And now they've lost the will to walk within the park.
For those sweet suicidal fantasies
begin to reach into the light again...

? Michaelette ?

4/16/2006
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