Romance Novels in Poetry

I AM AFRAID TO LOVE, AND YET I LOVE YOU

I am afraid to love, and yet I love you.

My fear is like a wall I walk right through.

The wall is there, and yet it doesn't stop me.

I need it still, and yet I still need you.

I know someday we will be in a field

Surrounded by the blessing of the sky.

I'll dance with all the freedom of pure joy,

Needing you without a reason why.

But now I'm still afraid that I might lose you,

That you might not accept my desperate need.

You make me laugh and cry and be completely.

You are the flower, I the slender reed.

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LOVE NEEDS ITS HOUR IN THE SUN

Love needs its hour in the sun

Or like a flower it will fade.

But happiness depends upon

The proper mix of light and shade.

Or like a flower it will fade

Into the wall of unpicked dreams.

The proper mix of light and shade

Takes more courage than it seems.

Into the wall of unpicked dreams

Love fades, afraid to speak. This poem

Takes more courage than it seems.

You're fading, too, when you come home.

Love fades, afraid to speak this poem.

But happiness depends upon

Your fading, too. When you come home,

Love needs its hour in the sun.

http://www.poemsforfree.com/lovepo.html by Nicholas Gordon

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I came across this site this evening and was wowed. I chose these two poems to post because for me, they speak romance novels in a nutshell.



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