Love reconsidered

I love you madly, love you truly

love you anything but cool-ly

Love you kindly, love you sweetly

love you with my love completely

Love you like there's no tomorrow -

I’ll hold you tight in joy and sorrow.

Love you sober, love you drinking,

love you without reasoned thinking

I love you, though you’re so demanding

(to love you needs much understanding!)

I love you, darling - but   just a minute

This relationship: are both of of us in it?

I tell you I Love you twenty times a day

But you? You don't. You rarely say.

Our loquacious bodies converse in bed

most eloquently, but what's in your head

and heart is a mute yet teasing mystery.

In solitude I wonder till sharp slivers of doubt

prod me to proclaim my love to drive them out.

I love you madly, love you truly -

but now I worry I love you unduly.