How Do I Love Thee?

 

 

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

I love thee to the depths of the earth, and to the end of the stars

My soul can endlessly pulse with the infinite love held inside

Yet immediately die at the loss of you.

I love thee to the level of the noonday’s sun, and brighter still

You will always have my love, my dear, until the very end of time.

I love thee unadulterated, shackles cannot hold you from my thoughts.

I love thee clearly, death would be a blessing without you

I love thee with the very fiber of my being, the whole of my heart,

Strength of a hundred men and the compassion of one.

I love thee with a love so pure, mountain springs run as sewage to be compared-

I love thee with the intensity of the infernos of the devil’s furnace.

            And of God choose, may he lead you to another better than a heathen such as I.

                                             Vince Hicks  2008

 

                                                                                                               

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