Confessions

I will not admit I love you

Even though that is what I feel

For fear of feeling like every other

Who did feel something so real

 

I will not say I love you

Even though I truly do

For that is to speak a word too often spoken

to One I wish to offer something new

 

I will sing no more ballads

Though love drives me to verse

For every song tells the same

However long or however terse

 

So I will just keep silent

And revel in the quiet pleasure

That no one feels about you quite like me

That is both my gift and my treasure

My ocean and my sea