The boy’s blue eyes shone

Tried so hard to be good

Tall frame was troubled

So easily misunderstood

 

But something happened

A long time ago

That split his heart

And darkened his soul

 

He had to feel needed

Wanted and secure

To cover the emptiness

And risk of wanting more

 

He worked and toiled

To fill the vacuum inside

He created and invented

Himself so many times

 

A husband, a father

A role model sublime

To stop himself writing

Outside the lines

 

He then met a maiden

That was feisty not fair

With dark soulful eyes

And wild titian hair

 

She took his body

Freed his primal desires

He’d hidden with passion

Amongst duty and lies

 

She reflected his darkness

Showed him the light

Beyond the personas

He’d created to fight

 

The demons within him

She coerced and they grew

He cowed in conflict

And neither of them knew

 

He needed to retreat

He needed a home

marital love and comfort

Not what now had grown

 

Out of a impetuous love

That no boundaries could hold

They writhed in agony

Until his heart blew cold

 

She gave him no map

As she was lost in her cave

So he broke her heart

And refused to stay

 

He fought like a coward

And played the martyr

To mask the devil

That dwelled hidden thereafter

 

He found the boy

and his blue eyes shone

but something was missing

now the maiden was gone

 

A husband, a father

A role model sublime

To stop himself writing

Outside the lines

 

© Katypoetess 2013