The confidential lover
"How shall I express my love to you
without it being insufficiently expressed and incorrectly?
It is vital for its life and for it to at all be able to survive
that it is right from the beginning and that it can not go wrong.
You are the only one I love, and that I do not wisely but too well.
That is the whole truth of the matter, there is nothing else to add,
you have my heart and are the only one to have it,
and I must regret it only if it would become a burden to you,
for I am prepared to bear the burden of my love alone
if it would be unbearable to you, or for that matter
to anyone who could not bear it or who would not have me.
There you are. My prayer is all yours and in your hands
to do with it as my most sacred offering whatever you would choose,
to cherish it and use it or to do without it.
I have been refused before and, sorry to say, used to it,
so I can take it as a man and will survive
no matter how my love might be received, misused, manhandled
or refused and trampled down by those who would not understand it,
but I will continue loving anyway and be the constant lover ever;
for I know my love is of such kind that it can never be a waste."
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
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Written on 2006-10-17 at 10:16
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