The Death of a Crush

dissolving heartThis poem was written sometime during the 1986-1987 school year.

A fleeting glance
A longing look
quickly hidden
no one will ever know
no one should ever know

Hidden feelings
rip and rend in frustration
emotional spasms
tightly kept veiled

Should anyone find out
trap door opens in the heart
as a futile escape from truth
is attempted

But now
     the feeling
          is gone.

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