I Look at You and Think: I Cannot Live

February 6, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is romantic love.

Today’s poem is about the need to express one’s love through poetry.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

I look at you and think: I cannot live

Without you; you're the person of my dreams.

Of course I know I can, but I must give

My heart room to tell it as it seems.

Romance must have a language fit for feeling

More than fits between the earth and sky.

For love there cannot be a floor or ceiling:

My love goes down too deep and flies too high.

So when I say I cannot live without you,

Know I can't imagine so much pain;

And when I claim to always dream about you,

Well, know the moon is happy once again.

The sun reveals cold truths for all to see,

But I must light my love with poetry.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Romantic Love

February 6: I Look at You and Think: I CannotLive