Because I liked you better
Than suits a man to say,
It irked you, and I promised
To throw the thought away.To put the world between us
We parted, stiff and dry;
‘Good-bye,’ said you, ‘forget me.’
‘I will, no fear’, said I.If here, where clover whitens
The dead man's knoll, you pass,
And no tall flower to meet you
Starts in the trefoiled grass,Halt by the headstone naming
The heart no longer stirred,
And say the lad that loved you
Was one that kept his word.
He would not stay for me, and who can wonder?
He would not stay for me to stand and gaze.
I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder,
And went with half my life about my ways.
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These poems are dedicated to GCF, my first true love. He was in his own life an avid student of unrequited love, in mine a compelling teacher. I could not muster the courage to risk our friendship for the possibility of romance, and found too late that I could not sustain a friendship without it.
It is a lesson best learned early in life, and it was my fate to do so. Pace.
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