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“ The Gift ”
– of you –
I want not to forget
Fail having tried,
Or simply accept
I’ve reason to regret,
Mindful so I could
Be able to affect,
Without need to try
As if I could deny,
Our love grew beyond
You being easy on the eye…
I wanted to recall,
The times you tried
Offering your all,
And I too blind to see
Might’ve realized,
You so needed me,
As I you even more
Tho the gift offered,
I ne’er realized before
Had always been of you …
Doesn’t tax one’s memory
To recall there’d been many,
But none the worth, if any
Yet didn’t know enough
I’d the gift of you to hold,
But only now can tell
When grown wiser old,
While you, now too long gone
Be the gift, for someone else to hold!
written in Grasse Fr.
© Jean-Jacques Fournier
Love – by any definition –
Poetry on a Canapé 