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Ink''s Secrets of the Soul Contest ~ 7/1/26
Secrets Kept Within My Soul
I dwell in what seems like a hopeless hell,
filled with frustration I cannot abide.
Often feeling as if I'm serving a sentence of solitude
brooding over the want of you.
Angst crashes over me as waves in a storm tide
as I continue to hide secrets in my soul
that have me stumbling in the shallows of a shoal.
Sullenly, I sulk like a mourning dove
whose blood spills from being unloved,
dying with a secret yet untold.
If only I had the courage to be bold
I would speak the words long held in my heart
of love and longing for you, I dared not impart.
Sonnets... I've inked at least a tome or two
about romantic notions I've always had of you,
but most lie crumpled in the trash,
until I burned those verses in the ash
for I fear if my secrets would ever unfold
you would take flight, leaving my heart cold.
Tormented and troubled, I cry in shadowed night
feeling you will never see me in love's light...
crazed from the yearning need of you
as if I am the asylum of your aches.
My wounded heart would surely break
if I taste your truth of being spurned
never having a kiss from your lips
or the tender touch of your fingertips.
I would wish for beauty to catch your eye
or angel's wings so that I may fly
across your view in a silver moonlit sky,
collecting prisms of stardust, so rare
that you would see me as someone to love...
one you would welcome with all of your heart
and from my side, you would never want to part.
If wishes could only make it so...
I would ask for a paradise
where happiness is found on every plateau.
An elysian garden, where orchids grow
and your eyes follow me wherever I go.
There, I would feel your heartbeat with mine
and find that I'm trapped in your pulse,
forever a part of each other
in a world so gloriously divine.
If my wish would be granted true
I would hear you whisper, "I love only you."
To Andromeda I would serenade, even in sleep
for no longer would I have reason to weep
and never another soulful secret to keep.
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