HAPPY VALENTINES DAY

"DO NOT ASK OF ME, MY LOVE"



Do not ask of me, my love,

that love I once had for you.

There was a time when

life was bright and young and blooming,

and your sorrow was much more than

any other pain.

Your beauty gave the spring everlasting youth:

your eyes, yes your eyes were everything,

all else was vain.

While you were mine, I thought, the world was mine.

Though now I know that it was not reality,

that’s the way I imagined it to be;

for there are other sorrows in the world than love,

and other pleasures, tool

Woven in silk and satin and brocade,

those dark and brutal curses of countless centuries:

bodies bathed in blood, smeared with dust,

sold from market-place to market-place,

bodies risen from the cauldron of disease,

pus dripping from their festering sores—

my eyes must also turn to these.

You’re beautiful still, my love,

but I am helpless too;

for there are other sorrows in the world than love,

and other pleasures too.

Do not ask of me, my love,

that love I once had for you!

LOVE CAN'T BE DESTROYED...........