Forbidden

Erin Ziegler
[ballerina_4@hotmail.com]

She sat near
	    the river

The once

	    peaceful place

Of that fearless greeting

Where once she lay

		        with him

motionless

That day their faces

	        kept

		                       a velvet expression

smooth and warm

When her ears hummed of his

		               sweet breathing

And the wind rippled

	             beneath her skirt

and up

             	to her neck

Her heart was beating madly with desire

as the strawberry bugs

	                                        tickled their feet

On the day he had betrayed her,

				betrayed herself

The need to embrace that 

		               sick-sweet memory

had brought her back

	       But now she needed a 

					           new image

The sky was no longer full of leaves

           And she wanted to fly

                                    	fly far away from here

But the thoughts shuddered her with 

					         a delicious fear

She watched the river's

		           unruly waves

                        swallow the rocks

That same river that had seized their secrets

And now she knew why

	                                          	it  was forbidden.