90. How much may I love you?
How much may I love you?
Let me never come to close,
to avoid importuning and trespassing,
but let me hold our feelings sacred
so that they may never come to harm.
Let me not enter except by your invitation,
so that I may love you ever but with care.
Give me the sacred office to maintain our fire
but with moderation, that it may not burn too violently
nor scorch, but at the same time never to abate
but just to keep us warm enough
to draw but pleasure and enjoyment from it,
so that it may ease construction
in our sacred office of creation.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
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Written on 2006-08-27 at 20:05
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