Only Me

A Poem By Joy Aletheia Stevens

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The moment I saw him I was in love

And that love as pure as a dove

But then I was still but a child

And truly I was a little bit wild

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And he could never love me

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I know it doesn’t sound quite right

For truly love at first sight

Is hard to suppose

But then who really knows

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And of course he couldn’t love me

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Us two became the closest of friends

And promised friendship to the bitter end

But then came the fateful day

When I grew up and to my dismay

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I knew he would never love me

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The day I knew my love was true

I locked myself into my room

I wept all my tears away

Then thought, “I’ll have his friendship anyway”

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But he could never love me

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I told myself ‘twas all infatuation

And this I believed without a question

But whenever some girl took his fancy

I found myself writhing in jealousy

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For he could never love me

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The years past, I bore my secret

My love? No one suspected it

Then in the market one day I saw him

And thought I, I would stop to greet him

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Though he would never love me

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I spied him at a jewelry nook

And curiously came to look

What I saw shattered my being

As he bought and engagement ring

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But he could never love me

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An impulse I obeyed without question

I stepped forward and made confession

I crumpled to tears and wished but to die

And knew to well the reason why

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For he could never love me

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I begged sympathy but our friendship was ended

For not even for that could I see him wedded

I would have gone and in haste

But he bid me look into his face

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But could he love me?

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The laughter in his eyes

Took me by surprise

And his secret he revealed to me

And now his ring on my finger be

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For he had always loved only me

Just a little love poem for Valentines Day

~Joy Aletheia Stevens

Photo Credit: Endless love by Ali Nissan  (CC BY-SA 2.0)