I Find My Happiness in Loving You

August 3, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is unrequited love.

Today’s poem is about unequal love.

I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

I find my happiness in loving you.

Though my love is not returned, I don't mind waiting.

The woods are a cathedral where I pray

For the beauty and grace that lie within my heart.

You hold me and we kiss, and yet not yet

Is there the unity that love must crave.

You want me, but not as I want you:

This truth is like a wreckage on my sea.

There's no one else I hunger for, nor touch

That makes me feel I must take off my skin;

And so I'll wait as years pile up like leaves,

And long with the lonely patience of the moon.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/ifind.html. For more love poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/lovepoems.html .

This week’s theme: Unrequited Love.

August 1: I Love You as a Valley Loves

August 2: I Love You, but I'm Not in Love with You

August 3: I Find My Happiness in Loving You