Love You, Love You Not

My love for you is

Brilliant, consistant

Flow of warm emotions,

Even if an irritant arises

I know it will, as with an

Oyster, produce a pearl,

I want to always touch

Your presence, as if

Running my fingers

Over the brush strokes

Of a master's painting,

To play you as a song

Upon ivory keys, I

Reread you in my

Mind like a well worn

Book, you are my

Favourite flavour to

Taste, the feel of

The ocean lapping at

My toes, my love is

Diving into the all of

You, joy filled, yet you

Are not here for you

Love me not so as time

Passes, my love will

Wilt like the petals of

A plucked rose and

Fade to the comfort of

A nice memory evoked

By an old photograph,

You will be just what

Once was and I will

Love other things.

By Gail Constable

From: Canada

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