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Gunslinger
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since 1999-10-09
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TX, USA

0 posted 2020-10-12 04:03 PM


Sitting, watching people, as they scurry through this life;
He’s somebody’s husband, she’s somebody’s wife.
Why are they together? There’s something going on.
There’s far too much affection there, so something must be wrong.

Surreptitious are the glances, at each passer by-
That’s nervousness and fear I see, half-hidden in their eyes.
I cannot help suspecting, that the reason they are there…
That in their disillusionment they’re trapped in Passion’s snare.

Passion is much stronger, than reason. Don’t you know?
It will take a person places that they know they should not go.
It will drive a person crazy, then lead them to despair-
If they seek the unobtainable, somewhere in Passion’s snare.

To her, he is Prince Valiant. To him, she’s Guineviere-
This café in their daydreams, a palace must appear…
The light of stark reality will lay folly bare-
Two more lost souls, out of control, just caught in Passion’s snare.

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Temptress
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-06-15
Posts 7136
Mobile, AL
1 posted 2020-10-14 10:18 PM


In a way, I've been in the place this poem describes. I bought a lot of "real estate" there too. The intensity of passion is beautiful, but dangerous.  I suppose I'm a bit jaded these days. It seems that my aging and experiences have taken their toll.  Enjoyed!

"I know this love will tear me to pieces
I know his hands will dig up my secrets"

Meg Myers


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