You Dare Me Love You
You dare me love you
Call me coward
Softly.
It is a little thing to love
Will I not come
So near?
You know that love would drown me
What would you then
Retrieve me?
That you would not do
Love loves not love lost
So deep.
I’ll not come down to love you
However sweet you call
Enveigle me.
If you would love and suffer love
Lift up your heart, not
Fondle it.
There’s love and life enough for all
Up here within the mind
Not barrenness
Stretch your love’s light wings
They’ll hold you
And grow.
Love’s span should ’brace us both
With ease and room
To move.
I’ll not squeeze in on penance
To be nipped immediate.
Go take your earthbound love
And learn to fly, I’ll
Follow you.