I Want to Say I Love You on Your Birthday

February 2, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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A birthday love poem from a rejected lover:

I want to say I love you on your birthday,

Though love is something you don't want from me.

Things didn't go so well when I last said it,

And so I'll keep it silent in my heart.

But how the words reverberate within me!

A song that I must struggle not to sing,

A music I must dance to without motion,

A poem that I must never read aloud.

Your wishes are a wall I would not scale,

Yet won't abandon, loathe to leave behind.

I cannot have, and cannot bear to lose you,

And so I send you this in my despair.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Unrequited Love

1/27: You Don’t Love Me, but Ah! Do I Love You

1/28: I Want You, but I Don’t Want You to Know

1/29: I Know that You Don’t Feel for Me

1/30: Eventually, You’ll Understand I Love You

1/31: Love Me the Way I’ve Long Loved You

2/1: Adrianna Rules My Sovereign Heart

2/2: I Want to Say I Love You on Your Birthday