I'm Far Too Shy to Tell You that I Love You

October 2, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem declares love for someone whose love seems out of reach.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

I'm far too shy to tell you that I love you.

You're a star far from my plain earth.

I gaze and see no woman who's above you:

To me you are the cynosure of worth.

Yet with all your beauty you're a person

Like me in need of sympathy and love.

Your thoughts of me would not, I dare hope, worsen

If I in some way tried your heart to move.

There's pleasure, surely, drawn from the reflection

That someone, somewhere, worships your sweet face,

Thinks you are the summit of perfection,

Wants nothing more of life than your embrace.

The danger is you'll think it couldn't be;

So I suggest you see yourself through me.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Declaring Love

October 2: I’m Far Too Shy to Tell You that I Love You