What Is Love


from the ABC set Poems

What is love, but an everlasting ache
For an unreachable heart?
Oh why must I have been cursed
With eyes that admire
Only his;
Lips that want no other sweet salt
But his;
Skin that feels no heat
But from him?
Why must my heart beat for one
That does not beat back?

Oh! The punishment to love
The unlovable.

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