The lovely and talented Ritu of butIsmileanyway.com has set us all off on Loveuary. I for one am excited with the task. What is love? We shall find out as the month goes on.
Link to Ritu’s post
Link to rules and prompts
Today is Day 9 of Loveuary. Shall we talk about forbidden love. Sadly in this world there is still a lot of prejudice. To be Gay in many parts of the world is not only illegal but also downright dangerous. I shall not name these countries as sadly there are so many.
Also in some countries it is very dangerous to have an adulterous affairs…. usually women come off worse, even being stoned to death while the men sometimes unpunished or maybe flogged . Also there are honour killings , we all know about these too so I do not want to dwell on these either .
The Nonet Forbidden Love is a new Poem, Butterflies of Love, is a poem I wrote in 2015
Forbidden Love A Nonet
We walk in shadows away from light
Hidden we belong to the night .
You can never hold my hand
A love like ours is banned.
People must not know
I love you so
forbidden
Is our
Love
Butterflies of Love
On no man did she depend
Rather to herself true
She turned inward to befriend.
Tiny butterflies of love
Escape from heaven
Ecstasy pure as the dove
Unspoken their lust did rise
Such joy forbidden
Taboos blown to wind and skies