Only This

 

When sorrow terrifies us, and a black

Future looms before us, dear, you cannot

Love me for the years ahead. Life is fraught

With many sadnesses. Do not shrink back.

We have today, only today, only

This moment. Who can promise anything

Beyond? And, my love, when you are looking

At the years behind, the hard and lonely

Years, before we met, before this sublime

Wonder of joy consumed us, bonded us,

Made such doubters believe in the wondrous,

Still, darling, do not love me for those times.

They are gone. The others do not exist.

Let us love today, embrace only this.

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May 24, 2011