Poem: I can't trust my heart

What do I do

if I can't trust my heart?
Why run a race
if I know that I am destined to lose

from the start?
Here we are my conscience,

nursing a broken heart again.
Wondering once more

if the pain and confusion will ever end.
Regretting the decision that we made weeks ago

to take a chance.
When we knew the ramifications

of story book romance.
Somewhere along the way

we lost the will and the desire.
Tried to protect the love too much,
evidently dousing the fire.
Forewarned to abstain from performing in a play
when we didn't know our part.
A question one asks his conscience

when one can not trust his heart.

By Sean R. E. Munnings
The Raga-Lover

Copyright © 2006 Sean R. Munnings, all rights reserved.