Defining Us by Karen Deen

I chose for you to live your dream life.
Even if it would never include me!
Yet the universe had other ideas.
A steamy night, and the muttering of the words,
‘Just this one time’.

We try walking away,
but the attraction keeps drawing us back.
Time and time again,
it’s the dance we keep performing.

Until that one night, discovering your truth,
of the life you’ve been living.
And finally, everything comes crumbling down.
Promises broken, lips colliding, and the heat
that can no longer be denied.

Will the universe finally win?
Or is this the end of the sensual dance,
with our words echoing ‘one last time’.