WE BOTH GOT CARRIED AWAY

WE BOTH GOT CARRIED AWAY

We both were blown away

A steamy love affair

With no care

We were wrapped in each other

Never seeming to bother

We broke the rules

Yet here I stand looking back

Back with no regrets

Somehow I knew

It wouldn’t come true

It just seems like a facade

With nothing real

We used one another

Or did we?

Not on my behalf it wasn’t

I loved you

I adored you

But you had your commitments

Your loyalties laid elsewhere

Your family

Your wife

Your children

You could not give it all up

Yet we had a child

Yes the one and only child

You only ever saw her once in a photo

Wrapped and swathed in a shawl

I had to let you go

So my child could grow

So I could grow

Grow away from you

But never forgetting you

My lessons learnt

And I’ll teach my child too

The perils

Of having an affair with a married man

It does not bode well

It surely has not in my case

But my child shall be well

In all that she does in life

She’ll carry a heart so pure

Pure enough to know right from wrong

She’ll grow up strong

She carries your genes

And I so, so know where she will lean!

Her path of destiny

Cannot be changed

Who knows my love!

Maybe just maybe

She’ll love and be loved

In that circle

And find her true love

Oh heavens above hear me please?

Guide her, protect her

Through the storms and seas

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

15^th July 2015

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