The Wealth of My Love

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The Wealth of My Love

My love to you I'd give the world

Had I the world to give.

And at your feet display my wealth

As long as I should live.

And then in death, my Lord permit,

By your side forever sit.

Yet somehow Fortune passed me by

In his supernal haste.

And wealth for me is what I feel

When your sweet gaze I taste,

And though I live from sun to sun

I'd die to think our love was done.

So then, My Love, to you I give

The diamonds in the night,

The silver in the moonbeams,

The gold in sun and light,

And hurriedly, 'ere we should part,

I humbly give to you my heart.

Author's Notes/Comments:

When I wrote this poem I was a child in many ways--certainly in years. But my mind and emotions were very much mature as well as my body. Too bad we are required to make decisions that will alter our futures when we are least able to do a good job of it.