Passions

By: Nicole Miller

Red and burning

Heart jumping

Pumping

A whisper of excitement

Concealed behind hesitant lips

Waiting to slip

Forget.



A smile etched

From words suppressed.

No one cares.

Circling like smoke in your mind,

The passions and thoughts you daren’t speak.

They hide in the deep

And secret places,

The shadowy spaces.

Such heartache it is that so many hide that which they love

For fear of being judged.

If our passion ran free

How brighter the world would be.

Free from chains

Of social restrain

Pain

And grief

Of loving that which is hard to love.

Dying to express,

Yet we digress

To the back of our shadowy minds

Where our passion is grown

Solitary and alone.