Secretly 
we meet as separate, boy and girl
but take each other’s hand for company
and together in our own world 
forget
their world which has split us, violently 
we tarry a while, for our regret
is felt both deeply and silently

to give up our child before our prime
when all we wanted was decency
all we needed was more time 
to be a family and only
to be with each other as three together
instead of separate and lonely

Poetry days #34.

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