If You'd Let Me

If You'd Let Me

A Poem by Lydia Thacker

"May I keep you?," I ask
and you laugh as though I jest.

My heart sinks,
but I smile.

If only you could really know

-I'd keep you
If I thought you'd let me.

© 2011 Lydia Thacker


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Lydia Thacker
Lydia Thacker

Chillicothe, OH



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