Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LINES TO LOVE, by BERNIECE GRAHAM


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LINES TO LOVE, by                    
First Line: My dear, you did not need to let me go
Last Line: Yet never did you call me back to you!
Subject(s): Envy; Love


My dear, you did not need to let me go.
Did you not know that love, like tides, must change --
Must move in constant, endless ebb and flow?
Had you not guessed you were my moon and sun,
My love a tide, when all is said and done,
Which must flow back to you? Love is so strange . . .
So like a heap of shining golden sand
That lies in shimmering warmth about the feet
Yet slides quick-running from the jealous hand.
You did not need to let me go, my own.
Deep in your heart you knew that you alone
Could stem the tide that ran so swift to meet
The tryst with other gods. Oh, this you knew,
Yet never did you call me back to you!





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