Best friends now lovers
A celebration of pride.
Through the window streams golden sunlight,
Lighting her hair like an angel’s halo.
Goosebumps follow my fingers along her warm skin,
she smiles with her head still on the pillow.
Burdens and pressures loom in the back of my mind,
But today we’ll spend together.
Still taboo but community celebrated,
Our new and secret love affair.
A step outside our previous lives,
Best friends now turned lovers.
We’re embarking on a lifetime together,
Forsaking all the others.
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I hope you enjoyed this short piece for the end of pride month. It is set in the morning after the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.
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Nadia Cowperthwaite
Aussie mum living in the Outback with a passion to share stories.
I have degrees in journalism and media, an MBA, currently undertaking a research degree.
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Comments (7)
What a beautiful moment you captured. This was a really great look at one intimate time.
Brilliant!!!💕
So sweet and lovely :) What a beautiful moment to capture, well done.
This was so wonderful and lovely!
An instance in time can be so sublime, that it is worth preserving in rhyme ...nice job my friend 👍
Beautiful words.
Super sweet and short poem! Love it!