The Secret Love Poem by Moore Hope

It is hard for me to speak the words and tell you how I feel
I am not sure how you would react to the truth that I would reveal.
So many times I tried to speak but instead no words I said
I'd hide my feelings of true desires deep inside my head.

I don't know why but I am like a shy little child when I am close to you
My stomach flutters, my heart beats hard, and I don't know what to do.
But yet when I am writing, I can say most everything
How I wanted to hold your hand in mine and be so comforting.

I know that one time when we walked my hand had started to stray
For some reason it felt natural to me, but yet I pulled it away.
I was afraid how you would react, would you run away from me?
For I know that you say you are not that type of girl, but the truth is hard to see.

Our religion has taught us that relationships can only be between a woman and a man
But what ever happened to true love, it is hard for me to understand.
One would think that if you love then that is all you need
True love shared between two people the planting of life's seed.
A seed that is rooted in the ground that will grow to be a tree so strong
But yet according to our religion that strong tree would be wrong.
The tree would grow out of unsacred grounds and evil will then sprout
The fruit it bears will be poisonous and to eat it would kill you with out a doubt.

So I do not tell you about the feelings that I have for you
I do not say that I am in love and I know this love is true
Oh how I want to hold you close, your body next to mine
My arms wrapped all around you tight, making up for the lost time.
I would tell you that I love you and that I want you to be with me
I want us to be rooted together as one and take a chance on our destiny.

But as for now I only hope that one day I will have the courage to say
The words that I have kept in my heart so secret, the truth that I locked away.