Sub Rosa

Sub Rosa


Your image rests so lightly like a sigh within my heart.
With downcast eyes I look, feeling shy within my heart.

Aware of my deep feelings, you claim a resonance.
When you ignore my pleading eyes, I cry within my heart.

Heaven’s light illuminates the secrets in your eyes.
Each glance in my direction makes me fly within my heart.

Denied the nectar of your lips, unrequited love
is hemlock to my grieving soul. I die within my heart.

My days and nights of wanting you rip at my very soul
leaving tattered remnants; I deny within my heart.

I linger. I persist. How can I go on day to day?
I have no ready answers only “why?” within my heart.

I’m drowning in my love and yet I know I must survive.
My salvation: truth. I say goodbye within my heart.

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Sub Rosa ~ secretly; privately