Love’s Departure
(Borrowed from John Donne)
My dear
It is not because I love you less
That I choose to leave
It is only that to love you more
Condemns me to such grief
And though your touch has known
no ebb
And flesh to flesh still sweet
It cannot reconcile the void
Our history makes of each
For every lover’s best intention
Fate betrays the heart
And I, who am no exception
Am doomed to take my part
So still your sorrow until I am
gone
And call my name no more
You cannot change what we have
been
Nor what has gone before
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