Expectations

I was never supposed to have loved you.

It is forbidden is it not?

To love a man who's heart is unwilling.

But the fruit is ever so sweet.



Drowning myself with expectations,

with torture over your feelings for me.

Never knowing, ever pending.

Never showing, never free.



And through your flaws I still love you.

Inside, I know you must care.

Too many complications leave you less decided.

Or is there nothing to decide at all?



I’m terrified of your love.

You leave me screaming.

Inside my own heart I bleed.

Yet, you give me nothing in return.

Yet, I keep on expecting.



And I’m still terrified of you.

The pain you could cause.

Without you even knowing.

Years edge on.



I was never supposed to fall in love with you.

But she means nothing to me.

The temptation stirrs, the fruit of the earth

has never sat so sweet.



You have the power to kill me.

But I love you.

No matter what.

I have the power of expectations,

of which I lost control of.

Author's Notes/Comments: 

Written 08/30/04.
I revised this poem, because the first rendition was terrible.

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