Forbidden desire

Stealthily creeping

Imperceptibly seeping

Into the crevices of my mind

Unwelcome feelings making me blind

Thoughts amorous

Still quite amorphous

Suddenly emerged out of the blue

Leaving me breathless, without a clue

A chance encounter

Full of idle banter

How it could inspire feelings like this

Euphoric  passion promising me bliss..

Fantasies forbidden

Desires hidden

Tormented by this stormy passion

I stand at the edge of a cliff of depression

Lament my fate

Myself I berate

For falling in love and my descent

In danger’s lap, though inadvertent

Need to remind

My lovesick mind

The commitment I made is a contract

From which I must not retract

My heart restrained

My feelings chained

All forbidden thoughts I did banish

Gradually the tempestuous thoughts did vanish.

***

With sadness, I remember that episode

As a test of myself on life’s road

Never again have I fallen prey

To the temptations that life throws my way.