unabated

a hundred love poems in a day

could never be enough to say

the love i felt upon first sight

and felt it grow to greater heights

 

if i could find a diamond mine

and shower you on valentines

a million diamonds would not show

how all the love within me grows

 

you’re an essence effervescent

the holy advent and ascent

the evidence of the divine

the meaning of any lifetime

 

there is no praise that i can raise

or action that’s not a light glaze

to quite convey an apt display

of all the love i feel today

 

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