Tainted

The swollen tears that burn my cheeks again Recall the light that shone across the sea Yet now there is no greater depth of pain Than knowing her smile is no more for me Forbidden love that had no right to be Yet still I thought forever was a place That love could thrive and dance for ever free But love is tainted by bloody disgrace. The cloudy shadows hid her smiling face And saved her heart from this subversive curse For love was out of time and out of place A crime, beyond the page of rhyming verse. Though love may call upon another day Our paths must part and follow their own way