IF YOU HAVE MY HEART.

LOVE POEM.

If you have my heart,

Then bruise it not.

Rather if it please,

Hold to your breast

 

And sense its gentle pulse

Or if pleases more,

Against your cheek,

And feel the sad echo

 

Vibrate along the jaw.

Do not bruise my heart,

But if pleases place to your lips

And kiss with love or wild desire,

 

Or if pleases more,

Hold in your hands and move around

With curious gaze as if a gem or object rare.

Bruise not my heart,

 

But let it beat against your own

Until its gentle pulse and yours

Become as one.

Reviews

[Terry Collett]

AN OLD POEM OF MINE REVIVED.