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It all seems like pre-teen years
when mama said I was too young,
that May-December affair
veiled from critical eyes;
Still, I wonder how society can lose heart
for Chuck&Larry, Mary&Sally
Place&time mean everything
for an eager bride with a sick&dying fiance;
like this circumstance that corners me
to no other prayer, but -
Maybe in the next lifetime
I taste the bitter tears of wives
whose husbands were casualties of war,
the crucifix of the great lovers-
Ebony&Ivory;
And, I get overwhelmed
by high walls the church has built,
imagining Father Ralph&Meggie,
the Thornbirds romance
What a trap, what a test-
The more they forbid,
the more love stubbornly grows inside
Without fault, without choice-
Ready or not, I am bound
to defy laws, gravity&boundaries
for something the world says is taboo,
but undeniably feels so right
