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"Evening Mood" by William Adolphe Bougereau
Temptation

It must have been so exasperating
To watched something so close and beautiful, yet so far and unreachable...

How difficult it must have been
to resist something so tempting,
Yet so forbidding...

But how can you resist something so inviting, when it's dangling right before you and beckoning?

Can you turn your back to something so enchanting, when it leaves you desperately wanting ... begging?

You feel as if your whole body is aching,
When each times you tried resisting
Your heart's crying out, defying, rebelling!
Insisting all the more ... craving, desiring!

When one is torn between feelings
and sound reasoning, the struggle from within is quite exhausting,

Leaving one gasping for breath ... panting,
As if his chest is about to explode, collapsing.
It must have been so frustrating ...
It must have been so exasperating ...

To wish and crave for something so tempting, yet so forbidding ...
Catch yourself, if you find yourself glancing, reaching,

Least, by the wayside,
you see yourself stumbling, falling.
Or spend the rest of your life
remorsing, regretting ...

Poem Copyright © 1999 by Vic Manzanal
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