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A sonnet in visual form, exploring the silent weight of a forbidden love.

The Equivalence of Emotion

—A Sonnet

I spoke the words: “I’m in a silent war,”
Not fought with swords, but wounds the soul has known.
A love forbidden, yet I longed for more,
In shadows, cast by light you’ve never shown.

You smiled in ways that let my hope arise,
A laugh, a glance, a voice too warm to fake.
Yet walls stood firm beneath your gentle guise,
And every step I took began to ache.

I called you cruel, though love was in my claim,
You bore my rage with silence, not disdain.
Two hearts that danced around a nameless flame,
With truth too soft to touch, too sharp for pain.

Now words are gone—no vow, no last embrace,
Just weight we shared, in quiet, sacred space.




-Author's Explanation

The equivalence of emotion is love that weighed the same, even without touch.
A silent balance—undelivered, perhaps, but never unequal.
Two hearts that never touched, yet bore the same ache, the same truth.
A sonnet in visual form, exploring the silent weight of a forbidden love.
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