A True Lie Poem by Bancroft Boreland

Yours is a beauty the poets have no words to define
Another like you is impossible to find
So desperate am i to make you mine
The epitome of beauty you are
You have me infatuated, enthralled
One look was all it took
For me to fall in love with you
But I had not known
That you were already taken and could never be my own

I suffer an emotion so painful it can never be defined
Time moves forward but i keep looking behind
Thinking of what could have been
What should have been!

And even though i try to persuade myself otherwise
I know that you never loved me
So day by day i continue to live
‘ A true lie’
Because i have married not the one i love
But the one who loves me...