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Love is daybreak, it is the dawn.    
Love is sunset, fragrant evening coming on.    
Love is nightfall and the wishing stars,    
And all the heavenly diamonds lying just beyond.    
Love is the day to day, the ordinary, and the plain,    
And love oft the more exquisitely so remains,    
Else why does love delight dancing in the rain    
As much as walking arm in arm along the Seine?    
   
And love is hopelessly more than I can find the words    
Love is toxic to the death and the sweetest breath of life.    
Love is bound in silken cords    
And with boundless emotions rife.    
   
And yet, love in silence and unspoken    
...withheld and unrevealed...    
Speaks of a heart too long broken    
Seems a robbery and a cell.    
And perhaps that and doubly so,    
Tho' this is deeper than I know    
As is all of love,    
And so,  
Again, I shall ponder thoughts thereof    
And yet, the silence seems familiar    
Wherein the heartstrings faintly quiver    
   
Kiss me wordlessly with your eyes    
A look to make me draw my breath    
Before diving in    
To taste the urgency of your kiss    
As if a raging, foaming surf    
Sweet nectar of the gods - and all be lost    
Yet, in earthly heaven found.    
Just once to live within your arms.    
Once within your kiss to drown.