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Verboten

December 1, 2019
By GrayGirl SILVER, Greenwood Village, Colorado
GrayGirl SILVER, Greenwood Village, Colorado
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My name 

Twists around your lips

Like a cobra

Around a neck.

We both wonder

The same things

But speak in circles

Racing around the 

Bush on fire.

Never saying

What we each know.

I laugh at your joke,

You turn your head,

To look me in the eyes.

Do they deceive me?

Betraying emotion.

It’s too dangerous

To say 

“I love you.”


The author's comments:

The definition of Verboten is forbidden. Take this poem as a Shakespearean restriction or a simple school-girl crush. 


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